ministerial duties
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 76 U.S. 575 - Litchfield v. The Register and Receiver · 1869Most cited · 88 citing opinions
duties of a character purely ministerial, and involving no exercise of judgment or discretion
How often courts cite the case defining “ministerial duties”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “ministerial duties” — 88 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.