Edelman v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3,456 federal appellate · 2,177 district · 655 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12,647 later decisions (301 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York (1978), Scheuer v. Rhodes (1974)
3,456 federal appellate · 2,177 district · 655 state decisions — followed in 42 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJordan v. Weaver (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Goldberg v. Kelly · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Shapiro v. Thompson
Cited together with Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Hans v. State of Louisiana · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Quern v. Jordan
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 12,647 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.”
527 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by the most express language or by such overwhelming implications from the text as [will] leave no room for any other reasonable construction.”
135 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Eleventh Amendment defense sufficiently partakes of the nature of a jurisdictional bar so that it need not be raised in the trial court.”
54 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.