State v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2012 · most notably United States v. Muniz (1963), Stone v. Arizona Highway Commission (1963)
2 federal appellate · 48 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 Chafor v. City of Long Beach · Smith v. . State of New York · Riddoch v. State · Murdock Parlor Grate Co. v. Commonwealth · Denning v. State
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A single question is presented by the appeal for consideration and determination, and it is an important one. The question is whether- the state is liable to respond in damages for the negligent acts of its agents, servants or employees. As to this question it is well settled by the great weight of authority that the state, in consequence of its sovereignty, is immune from prosecution in the courts and from liability to respond in damages for negligence, except in those cases where it has expressly waived immunity or assumed liability by constitutional or legislative enactment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“All persons who have, or who shall hereafter have claims on contract or for negligence against the state, which have been disallowed, are hereby authorized, on the terms and conditions herein contained, to bring suit thereon against the state in any of the courts of this state of competent jurisdiction, and prosecute the same to final judgment. The rules and practice in civil cases shall apply to such suits except as herein otherwise provided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ward 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.