Yeomans v. Kentucky’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
388 federal appellate · 23 district · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 717 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984), United States v. Chadwick (1977)
388 federal appellate · 23 district · 113 state decisions — followed in 26 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 77A (§ 1 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Parden v. Terminal Railway of Alabama State Docks Department · Employees of Department of Public Health Welfare Missouri v. Department of Public Health & Welfare Missouri · Yeomans v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
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 717 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bars federal court suits against States only by citizens of other States,”
2 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.