State v. Woodruff’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 308 So. 2d 71 - Newell v. State (1975), 421 So. 2d 1046 - Pruett v. City of Rosedale (1982)
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Comans v. Tapley · Gibbs v. Green · Robertson v. Bank of Batesville · Gabbert v. Wallace · Wilson v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... We hold that the state cannot be made liable to suit out of implications gathered from a statute or any group of statutes, but the right to sue the state must be expressly granted by statute, without which express grant no allowance to sue the state exists. .. . [ State v. Woodruff, 170 Miss. 744, 766 , 150 So. 760, 762 (1933)].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reed v. Evans · Karpovs v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.