Denson v. Bronner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “See Art. I, § 14, Ala. Const. 1901; Ala. Code 1975, §§ 16-25-2(b) and 36-27-2(b) (recognizing that the boards of control of the [Teachers' Retirement System] and the [Employees' Retirement System] are instrumentalities of the State, that the [Teachers' Retirement System] and the [Employees' Retirement System] are funded by the State, and that their officers and employees are immune from suit in their official capacities to the same extent as the State, its agencies, and its officers and employees).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wood v. State

2. “[A]ny action against a State official that seeks only to recover monetary damages against the official 'in [his or her] individual capacity' is, of course, not an action against that person in his or her official capacity and would of necessity fail to qualify as 'an action against the State' for purposes of § 14.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Barnhart v. Ingalls

3. “prohibits the judicial branch, through adjudications, from usurping functions dedicated to the executive and legislative branches.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 255 So. 3d 210 - Ex parte Limestone Cnty. Dep't of Human Res.