State v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably Federal Sign v. Texas Southern University (1997), General Services v. Little-Tex Insulation (2001)
2 district · 40 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 Hough v. Railway Co. · South Carolina v. United States · Davis v. Gray · Northern Pacific Railroad v. Herbert · Stanley v. Schwalby
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the state is not subject to an action in behalf of a citizen does not establish that he has no claim against the state, or that no liability exists from the state to him. It only shows that he cannot enforce against the state his claim, and make it answer in a court of law for its liability. What is made out by this objection is not that there is no liability and no claim, but that there is no remedy. ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ »”
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.