Cope v. Hampton County’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1987
4 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has had occasion heretofore to hold that counties, being merely parts of the state government, may partake of the state’s immunity from liability. The state is not liable except by its own consent, and so the county is exempt from liability unless the state first consented. Their liabilities, whether grounding in tort or contract, are mere creatures of statutes, and they possess no power and can incur no obligations except such as are expressly provided for by statute. In the absence of statute, there is no county liability.””
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.