Larsen v. Senate of Pennsylvania’s Empirical Analysis
152 F.3d 240 · 1998
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Geoff Gallas, v. the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (2000), State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition v. Rowland (2007)
21 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Baker v. Carr · Imbler v. Pachtman
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]ecause concerns for the separation of powers are often at a minimum at the municipal level, we decline to extend our analysis developed for municipalities to other levels of government.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in fact the Supreme Court in Consumers Union did resolve the issue of the application of absolute legislative immunity to claims for prospective relief and answered that question in the affirmative.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baraka v. McGreevey · No. 05-2361“A court that is without proper jurisdiction cannot proceed at all, and must merely note the jurisdictional defect and dismiss the suit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.