Monroe v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Moline Tool Co. v. Department of Revenue (1951), 3 Ill. 2d 218 - People v. Illinois Toll Highway Commission (1954)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Hans v. State of Louisiana · Schwing v. Miles · Noorman v. Department of PubLic Works & Buildings · Joos v. Illinois National Guard · Posinski v. C., M., St. P. P.R.R. Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is established that a suit against the department is a suit against the State * * * and will not lie. On the other hand, where the action at law or suit in equity is maintained against a State officer or the director of a department on the ground that, while claiming to act for the State, he violates or invades the personal and property rights of the plaintiff under an unconstitutional act, or under an assumption of authority which he does not have, such suit is not against the State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.