Wilson v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““I note that, although the ‘exception’ in Drummond the correctional officers seek to apply states that ‘actions for ... damages’ may be pursued, such ‘actions’ refer to only certain limited actions ‘against State officials ... individually ...,’ because actions for damages against officials in their ‘representative’ or official capacities are actually actions seeking to recover money from the State and are, thus, barred. Burgoon v. Alabama Dep’t of Human Res., 835 So.2d 131, 133 (Ala.2002) (‘A suit against a State agency, or against State agents in their official capacities, is a suit against the State.’). Even those actions against State officials in their individual capacities, however, may still be barred by § 14, Phillips v. Thomas, 555 So.2d 81, 83 (Ala.1989) (‘State officers and employees, in their [individual capacities,] ... are absolutely immune from suit when the action is, in effect, one against the State.’), or by State-agent immunity under Ex parte Cranman, 792 So.2d 392 (Ala.2000).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 116 So. 3d 1119 - Teplick v. Moulton