Alabama v. Pugh’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
512 federal appellate · 283 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,964 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984), Kentucky v. Graham (1985)
512 federal appellate · 283 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 16 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
reviewedNewman v. Alabama (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Hutto v. Finney · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Newman v. Alabama
Cited together with Edelman v. Jordan · Quern v. Jordan · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York
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 1,964 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Eleventh Amendment prohibits federal courts from entertaining suits by private parties against States and their agencies.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Surely the Court does not intend to resolve summarily the issue debated by my Brothers in their separate opinions in Hutto v. Finney , 437 U.S. 678 , 700 [98 S.Ct. 2565, 2579, 57 L.Ed.2d 522] (BRENNAN, J., concurring), and 708-709 n. 6 [98 S.Ct. 2583 n. 6] (POWELL, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Quern v. Jordan“[w]hether the mandatory injunction issued against the State of Alabama and the Alabama Board of Corrections violates the State's Eleventh Amendment immunity or exceeds the jurisdiction granted federal courts by 42 U.S.C. § 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Quern v. Jordan
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.