Lowry v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1994
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I do not deny the legal proposition that the state cannot be sued in the courts of this state, except by its own consent. This doctrine is too well settled and too firmly established to intimate even a doubt in reference thereto; and I fully concur in its correctness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.