State Docks Commission v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Aland v. Graham (1971), State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Murphy (1939)
8 federal appellate · 145 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 Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · In Re State of New York et al Petition of Walsh et al · Sloan Shipyards Corporation v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation · Pennoyer v. McConnaughy
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t may be conceded that the state in engaging in such enterprise is performing a business or corporate power and not a governmental function.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“But section 14 of the Bill of Rights of the Alabama Constitution provides that the state shall never be made a defendant in any court of law or equity. The state cannot consent to such a suit. This means not only that the state itself may not be sued, but that this cannot be indirectly accomplished by suing its officers or agents in their official capacity, when a result favorable to plaintiff would be directly to affect the financial status of the state treasury. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There [Finnell’s case], state officers had exceeded their legal authority and had taken property without due process, and applied it to state uses. The state was of course not liable nor suable, though the officers were the state highway commissioners acting for it in constructing a state road.””
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.