Scully v. Bird’s Empirical Analysis
209 U.S. 481 · 1908
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 15 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1997 · most notably Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984), Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. (1949)
22 federal appellate · 15 district · 1 state decisions
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 Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Poindexter v. Greenhow · Fitts v. McGhee · Cunningham v. Macon & Brunswick Railroad
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“manifest from this summary of the allegations of the bill that this is not a suit against the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in dereliction of duties enjoined by the statutes of the State,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“palpably in violation of * * * (the Eleventh) Amendment * * *”
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.