Beers Ex Rel. Platenius v. Arkansas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that a state “may withdraw its consent whenever it may suppose that justice to the public requires it”
• holding sovereign immunity “is altogether voluntary on the part of the sovereignty” such that “it follows that [the sovereign] may prescribe the terms and conditions on which it consents to be sued, and the manner in which the suit shall be conducted[.]”
• calling sovereign immunity \an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations\
• applying the “established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission” in a suit against a State in its own court
• calling sovereign immunity “an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations”
• applying the “established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission” in a suit against a State in its own court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).