Nevada v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
144 federal appellate · 79 district · 414 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 899 later decisions (99 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984), Will v. Michigan Department of State Police (1989)
144 federal appellate · 79 district · 414 state decisions — followed in 39 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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 · Shapiro v. Thompson · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · 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 899 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t may be wise policy, as a matter of harmonious interstate relations, for States to accord each other immunity or to respect any established limits on liability.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be found either in an agreement, express or implied, between the two sovereigns, or in the voluntary decision of the second to respect the dignity of the first as a matter of comity.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“California's exercise of jurisdiction in this case poses no substantial threat to our constitutional system of cooperative federalism. Suits involving traffic accidents occurring outside of Nevada could hardly interfere with Nevada's capacity to fulfill its own sovereign responsibilities. We have no occasion, in this case, to consider whether different state policies, either of California or of Nevada, might require a different analysis or a different result.”
10 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.