Planters' Bank of Georgia v. Georgia

·1824

What the Court Decided

Chief Justice Marshall held that Georgia could not claim sovereign immunity for a bank it had established as a separate corporation, establishing that the corporate form separates an entity from its sovereign creator for immunity purposes.

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Cited In

Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation

2025 Term · 24-1021

Cited as the foundational case establishing that when a state creates a separate corporation, that corporation does not share the state's sovereign immunity, even if the state retains substantial control.