Mueller v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
133 F.3d 1063 · 1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2016
3 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Thompson Ex Rel. Thompson · National League of Cities v. Usery · Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority · Employees of Department of Public Health Welfare Missouri v. Department of Public Health & Welfare Missouri
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has reference only to suits to enforce Wisconsin's law of overtime compensation, and as it is highly unlikely that there would be diversity of citizenship between a Wisconsin employee and the State of Wisconsin as employer, the draftsmen of the provision are unlikely to have had federal courts in mind when they said”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mueller v. Thompson“No magic words are required, but implicit waivers won't do; the court must be highly confident that the state really did intend to allow itself to be sued in federal court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.