Browder v. McArthur

How courts have described this case

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

• “[N]either a State nor its officials acting in their official capacities are ‘persons’ under § 1983.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Johnson v. Cadillac Motor Car Co.
  Second Circuit· 1919-11-12· cited 106×
• Dodge v. Gaylord
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1876-11-15· cited 90×
• Illinois v. Illinois Central Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1902-02-03· cited 61×
• Tyler v. Magwire
  Supreme Court· 1873-03-17· cited 53×
• Bissell Carpet-Sweeper Co. v. Goshen Sweeper Co.
  Sixth Circuit· 1896-03-05· cited 53×
• Todd v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1951-10-04· cited 44×
• Lovett v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1892-01-15· cited 32×
• Merchants' National Bank v. Grunthal
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1897-01-15· cited 26×
• Silver v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1928-10-10· cited 25×
• Sun Oil Co. v. Burford
  Fifth Circuit· 1942-07-11· cited 19×
• Omaha Electric Light & Power Co. v. City of Omaha
  Eighth Circuit· 1914-05-15· cited 18×
• Legg v. Overbagh
  Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors· 1830-04-15· cited 17×
• Peck v. Sanderson
  Supreme Court· 1855-12-18· cited 14×
• Burget v. Robinson
  First Circuit· 1903-05-01· cited 10×
• Jared v. Hill
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1821-11-16· cited 9×
• Bushnell v. Crooke Mining & Smelting Co.
  Supreme Court· 1893-10-30· cited 7×
• Aaron v. Cooper
  E.D. Arkansas· 1959-01-09· cited 7×
• Metcalf v. City of Watertown
  Seventh Circuit· 1895-07-10· cited 7×
• Linkous v. Virginian Ry. Co.
  Fourth Circuit· 1917-06-02· cited 6×
• William W. Bierce, Ltd. v. Waterhouse
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1909-11-06· cited 5×