Roberts v. Barwick’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Gilbert v. Richardson (1994), Hennessy v. Webb (1980)
63 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 In Re State of New York et al Petition of Walsh et al · Smith v. Truman Reeves · South Carolina v. United States · North Carolina v. Temple · Louisiana ex rel. New York Guaranty & Indemnity Co. v. Steele
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any suit against an officer or agent of the State, in his official capacity, in which a judgment can be rendered controlling the action or property of the State in a manner not prescribed by statute, is a suit against the State” ... and cannot be maintained without its consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The sovereignty of the State is supreme, and to maintain that sovereignty[,] the supremacy must also be maintained, and to do that the State must never be subjected to suit without its expressed consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he State can not by the courts be required to submit to being sued against its express consent.”
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.