555 So. 2d 81 - Phillips v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 792 So. 2d 392 - Ex Parte Cranman (2000), Nance by and Through Nance v. Matthews (1993)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 90 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 Aland v. Graham · Barnes v. Dale · 413 So. 2d 391 - DeStafney v. University of Alabama · 346 So. 2d 931 - Unzicker v. State · St. Clair County v. Town of Riverside
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the State of Alabama shall never be made a defendant in any court of law or equity.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Riggs v. Bell · Taylor v. Shoemaker“willfully, maliciously, illegally, fraudulently, in bad faith, beyond his authority, or under a mistaken interpretation of the law.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“State officers and employees, in their official capacities and individually, are also absolutely immune from suit when the action is, in effect, one against the state.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ingle v. Adkins · Ex Parte Davis
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.