Migneault v. Peck’s Empirical Analysis
158 F.3d 1131 · 1998
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents (2000), Patricia Garrett v. The University of Alabama at Birmingham Board of Trustees the United States of America Milton Ash (1999)
13 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 630 (§ 11 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000B
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the legislation at issue imposes burdens far greater than the seriousness of any demonstrated constitutional injury requiring such measures, then the legislation does not remediate the constitutional violation but creates substantive change in constitutional protections.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Qualified immunity is an immunity from suit rather than a mere defense to liability. The doctrine allows courts to expeditiously weed out suits against government officials which fail to establish a violation of a clearly established right prior to imposing the burdens of discovery and litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A state may consent to be sued in federal court, or Congress may abrogate sovereign immunity. To abrogate Eleventh Amendment immunity, Congress must have `unequivocally expresse[d] its intent to abrogate the immunity' and `acted pursuant to a valid exercise of power.'”
1 later decision 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.