Arecibo Community Health Care, Inc. v. Puerto Rico’s Empirical Analysis
270 F.3d 17 · 2001
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Nieves-Márquez v. Puerto Rico (2003), Wojcik v. Massachusettts State Lottery Commission (2002)
38 federal appellate · 10 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 11 U.S.C. § 106
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · Hans v. State of Louisiana · Atascadero State Hospital v. Scanlon · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“test for determining whether a State has waived its immunity from federal-court jurisdiction is a stringent one.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a personal privilege which [the state] may waive at pleasure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As with any case of a knowing and intelligent waiver of rights, the state has the option ... of determining whether the potential benefit from waiving its immunity will exceed the potential liability.”
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.