Stone v. Arizona Highway Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• reconsidering previous decisions that deferred issue to legislature, and concluding that court had power to abrogate judicially created immunity
• right of action against the state not recognized in the common law when Arizona Constitution adopted
• sovereign immunity abolished both for the Stone case and “all other pending cases, those not yet filed which are not barred by the statute of limitations and all future causes of action”
• state officials may be held liable for their own acts of misfeasance
• “There is perhaps no doctrine more firmly established than the principle that liability follows tortious wrongdoing; that where negligence is the proximate cause of injury, the rule is liability and immunity is the exception.”
• state officials may be held liable for their own acts of misfeasance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).