Gentry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Krause v. State (1972), Hoiengs v. County of Adams (1994)
42 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 Gledhill v. State · Schmutte v. State · State ex rel. Walker v. Board of Commissioners for Educational Lands & Funds · State ex rel. Davis v. Mortensen · Anstine v. State, Department of Banking & Receivership Division
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The several district courts of the judicial districts of the state shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine (1) all claims against the state filed therein which have previously been presented to the Director of Administrative Services, and have been in whole or in part rejected or disallowed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This provision permits the state to lay its sovereignty aside and consent to be sued on such terms and conditions as the Legislature may prescribe. This provision of the Constitution is not self-executing. Legislative action is necessary to make it available.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The state may sue and be sued, and the Legislature shall provide by law in what manner and in what courts suits shall be brought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.