The emperor Domitian is represented as a micro-manager in Suetonius' biography of him. Much of this activity is represented as meddling, but even Suetonius concedes that the emperor was “conscientious” in legal matters.

Suetonius, Life of Domitian 8:

He was most conscientious in dispensing justice. . . . As part of his campaign for improving public morals, Domitian made sure that the appropriation by the general public of seats reserved for the knights was no longer condoned, and he came down heavily on authors who published lampoons on distinguished men and women. He expelled one ex-quaestor from the Senate for being over-fond of acting and dancing, forbade women of notoriously bad character the right to use litters or to benefit from inheritancies and legacies, struck a knight from the jury-roll because he had divorced his wife on a charge of adultery and then taken her back again, and sentenced many members of both orders under the Scantian Law [against 'unnatural practices']. Taking a far more serious view than his father and brother had done of unchastity among the Vestals, he began sentencing offenders to execution and afterwards restored the traditional form of punishment [being buried alive].