Barton v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis
293 F.3d 944 · 2002
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Hill v. Kemp (2007), Ernst v. Rising (2005)
11 federal appellate · 4 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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Papasan v. Allain · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · Hans v. State of Louisiana
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the injunctive relief sought by the plaintiff is truly prospective non-monetary relief, sovereign immunity will not bar the suit simply because the state may be required to make incidental expenditures in complying with the injunction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ernst v. Roberts · Ernst v. Rising“is whether the money or the non-monetary injunction is the primary thrust of the suit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ernst v. Roberts · Ernst v. Rising“[A]n ancillary effect on the state treasury is a permissible and often an inevitable consequence of the principle announced in Ex parte Young. "). "A court may enter a prospective injunction only if the monetary impact is ancillary, i.e., not the primary purpose of the suit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ernst v. Rising · Ernst v. Rising
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.