Earles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A federal court’s grant of relief against state officials on the basis of state law, whether prospective or retroactive, does not vindicate the supreme authority of federal law. On the contrary, it is difficult to think of a greater intrusion on state sovereignty than when a federal court instructs state officials on how to conform their conduct to state law. Such a result conflicts directly with the principles of federalism that underlie the Eleventh Amendment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 252 F. Supp. 2d 1264 - University of Utah v. Shurtleff

2. “(1) Whether the state, through statutes or case law, views the entity as an arm of the state; (2) the source of the entity’s funding; (3) the entity’s degree of local autonomy or degree of authority independent from the state; (4) whether the entity is concerned primarily with local as opposed to statewide problems; (5) whether the entity has the authority to sue and be sued in its own name; and (6) whether the entity has the right to hold and use property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. C.A. v. Lowndes County Department of Family & Children Services

3. “The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another state, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Landry v. Exxon Pipeline Co.