Principality of Monaco v. Mississippi’s Empirical Analysis
292 U.S. 313 · 1934
Citation profile
250 federal appellate · 83 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 732 later decisions (92 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Edelman v. Jordan (1974), Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984)
250 federal appellate · 83 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Hans v. State of Louisiana · Cohens v. Virginia · In Re State of New York et al Petition of Walsh et al · Cohens v. Virginia · The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia
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 732 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“States of the Union, still possessing attributes of sovereignty, shall be immune from suits, without their consent, save where there has been 'a surrender of this immunity in the plan of the convention.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“outside the structure of the [original] Union.”
9 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.