Savage v. Aronson’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 288 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 293 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Miller v. Egan (2003), Unisys Corp. v. Department of Labor (1991)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 288 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 606 (§ 406 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Stanley v. Illinois · Dandridge v. Williams · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Harris v. McRae
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 293 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court, in deciding a motion to dismiss, must consider the allegations of the complaint in their most favorable light.”
67 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a party may amend his or her pleadings . . . (1) By order of judicial authority, "the plaintiff is hereby ordered to amend the first count of her complaint to delete paragraph ten and that portion of paragraph thirteen alleging a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1201 et seq. The remaining issue to be addressed is venue. The defendant argues that this court must dismiss this action because of improper venue. "Venue [however] is not a jurisdictional question but a procedural one. . . . Accordingly, it may be waived by the parties. . . .”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“sovereign immunity does not bar suits against state officials acting in excess of their statutory authority . . . or in violation of constitutional rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.