Wilkinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2016
1 district · 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 In re Ayers · Pennoyer v. McConnaughy · Ayers Scott McCabe · Railroad Company v. Tennessee · Sanders v. . Saxton
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the absence of either express constitutional or statutory authority an action against a sovereign state cannot be maintained. The doctrine is elementary and of universal application, and so far as we are aware there is not a single authority to the contrary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Until otherwise provided by law, the Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General shall constitute a Board of State Prison Commissioners [etc.] . . . They shall, also, constitute a Board of Examiners, with power to examine all claims against the State except salaries or compensation of officers fixed by law, and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law; and no claim against the State, except for salaries and compensation of officers fixed by law, shall be passed upon by the Legislature without having been considered and acted upon by the said Board of Examiners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dean v. Rampton
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.