Nueces County v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions

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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Persons sued in their official capacity may raise any defense available to the governmental unit, including sovereign immunity----An individual sued in an official capacity may enjoy the protections of sovereign immunity to the same extent as those protections are available to the person’s employer and thus, if the governmental unit would be immune due to sovereign immunity, so is the governmental official sued in his official capacity.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Burkett v. City of El Paso · 480 F. Supp. 2d 895 - Bittakis v. City of El Paso

2. “A plaintiff may sue a governmental employee or official in the person's official capacity, individual capacity, or both.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Donna v. Ramirez

3. “grants or denies a plea to the jurisdiction by a governmental unit.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of Donna v. Ramirez