Rankin v. Colman

How courts have described this case

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

• “Although the defense of sovereign immunity is an affirmative defense, where an affirmative defense appears on the face of a pleading, it may be argued as a basis for a motion to dismiss.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Nieves
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-11-15· cited 60×
• Southern Alliance Corp. v. City of Winter Haven
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-03-18· cited 17×
• Stackhouse v. Emerson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-01-22· cited 16×
• Wilson v. County of Orange
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-08-06· cited 15×
• McCormick v. City of Lawrence
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2005-01-21· cited 11×
• D.F. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-05-01· cited 11×
• Lambrix v. Dugger
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-08-22· cited 9×
• Alvarez v. E & A Produce Corp.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-03-25· cited 8×
• Omasta v. Bedingfield
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-03-07· cited 6×
• Dept. of Children and Families v. Feliciano
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-11-28· cited 4×
• Ungerer v. Moody
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1993-01-28· cited 3×
• McCormick v. City of Lawrence
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2004-05-14· cited 1×
• Simon v. Simon
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-04-19· cited 1×
• Lawton v. Cochran
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-06-25· cited 1×
• DF v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-05-01
• Salazar v. Wille
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-03-21
• Bain ex rel. Bain v. City of Hialeah
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-11-09
• Peter Irwin, Ph.D. v. Signal Safe, Inc., etc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-01-17
• Ioannis Zisis, Ph.D. v. Signal Safe, Inc., etc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-01-17

Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Bell v. Wolfish
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-14· cited 11,438×
• Hughes v. Rowe
  Supreme Court· 1980-11-10· cited 3,527×
• Gomez v. Toledo
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-27· cited 2,697×
• Wood v. Strickland
  Supreme Court· 1975-04-14· cited 2,195×
• Owen v. City of Independence
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-02· cited 2,083×
• Martinez v. California
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-03· cited 1,332×
• Procunier v. Navarette
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-22· cited 925×
• Randy Rene Lozano v. William French Smith, Elton Faught
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-11-03· cited 190×
• Andrew Sims v. C. L. Adams, III
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-08-25· cited 178×
• Logan v. Shealy
  Fourth Circuit· 1981-10-07· cited 176×
• Craig Hill v. Robert Bogans and the City and County of Denver
  Tenth Circuit· 1984-05-30· cited 142×
• Jill Tinetti v. Lee Wittke, Sheriff Racine County, Jane Doe, a Racine County Matron Whose Name is Unknown, and County of Racine
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-04-24· cited 91×
• Niles B. Wanger and Shirley Wanger v. Ray Bonner, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Dekalb County, Robert W. McCullough Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-09-05· cited 91×
• Tinetti v. Wittke
  E.D. Wisconsin· 1979-10-31· cited 86×
• Woodrow Barksdale, II v. John T. King, Secretary, Department of Corrections, Louisiana
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-03-07· cited 82×
• Alice P. Nelson, Administratrix of the Estate of Ronald Nelson, Deceased v. David R. Knox, Robert C. Akins
  Sixth Circuit· 1958-05-19· cited 68×
• Troy Lee Douthit v. Clarence Jones, Sheriff, Dallas County, Texas, and W. H. McCallum
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-04-03· cited 67×
• Clark v. Boeing Company
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-03-24· cited 60×