White v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
425 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 435 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Parsons v. United Technologies Corp. (1997), Jolly, Inc. v. Zoning Board of Appeals (1996)
425 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 Caminetti v. United States · Smith v. Allwright · Jones v. Liberty Glass Co. · United States v. Acme Process Equipment Co. · Kansas v. Missouri
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 435 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“their meaning or intent they are given the effect which makes the least rather than the most change in sovereign immunity.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well established law that the state is immune from suit unless it consents to be sued by appropriate legislation waiving sovereign immunity in certain prescribed cases.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]ince the state can act only through its officers and agents a suit against a state officer is in effect one against the sovereign state.”
14 later decisions 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.