Asbell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1967
17 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 State v. Calhoun · State v. Asbell · Rose v. Governor
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That claim ... is based upon a theory of statutory interpretation which raises nothing beyond an implication, more or less strong. This will not suffice. ... To compel a state upon theories of doubtful statutory interpretation to appear as defendant suitor in its own courts, and to litigate with private parties as to whether it had abnegated its sovereignty or its right of exemption from suit would be' intolerable. . . . There being no statute which in explicit terms authorized the suit . . .” (pp. 55, 56.)”
3 later decisions 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.