Pitcock v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS v. MATTHEW ANDREWS (2018), Arkansas Tech University v. Link (2000)
93 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 Murray v. Wilson Distilling Co. · State of Minnesota v. Ethan Allen Hitchcock · Poindexter v. Greenhow · Fitts v. McGhee · United States v. Shipp
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A sovereign state cannot be sued except by its own consent; and such consent is expressly withheld by the constitution of this state. . . . The question whether a suit is one against a state is not necessarily determined by reference to the parties to the record. If the state is the real party in interest, though only its officers and agents are parties, then it is in effect a suit against the state, and falls within the rule of prohibition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.