Thomason v. Works Projects Administration’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.2d 342 · 1943
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1970
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. Burr · Keifer v. Reconstruction Finance Corp. · Reconstruction Finance Corp. v. J. G. Menihan Corp. · Posey v. Tennessee Valley Authority
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.
““Appellant argues that the recent decisions of the Supreme Court in Keifer & Keifer v. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 306 U.S. 381 , 59 S.Ct. 516 , 83 L.Ed. 784 ; Federal Housing Administration [Region No. 4] v. Burr, 309 U.S. 242 , 60 S.Ct. 488 , 84 L.Ed. 724 , and Reconstruction Finance Corporation v. J. G. Menihan Corp., 312 U.S. 81 , 61 S.Ct. 485 , 85 L.Ed. 595 , have virtually obliterated the principle of sovereign immunity from suit. “While some of these decisions, notably the last one, contain pretty broad language, we think they do not go so far as appellant contends. They were concerned with corporate or analogous devices created or immediately authorized by Congress and endowed by it, expressly or by implication, with the power to sue and be sued. The Works Projects Administration is not a device of that type. Like its predecessor the Works Progress Administration, it is a mere agency of the executive. The Works Progress Administration was established in 1935 by executive order and was made responsible to the President for the ‘honest, efficient, speedy, and coordinate execution’ of the work relief program as set up in the emergency relief acts. It was continued under its new name by Reorganization Plan No. 1, effective July 1, 1939. There is no disguising the fact that suit against either agency amounts to a direct suit against the government, and Congress has not yet indicated a general waiver of governmental immunity.” Thomason v. Works Projects Administrati”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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