Cory v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
141 federal appellate · 123 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 771 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984), Kentucky v. Graham (1985)
141 federal appellate · 123 district · 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLummis v. White (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Shapiro v. Thompson · Dunn v. Blumstein · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury
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 771 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would be a novel proposition indeed that the Eleventh Amendment does not bar a suit to enjoin the State itself simply because no money judgment is sought.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Edelman did not hold ... that the Eleventh Amendment never applies unless a judgment for money payable from the state treasury is sought. It would be a novel proposition indeed that the Eleventh Amendment does not bar a suit to enjoin the State itself simply because no money judgment is sought.... [T]he Eleventh Amendment by its terms clearly applies to a suit seeking an injunction, a remedy available only from equity. To adopt the suggested rule, limiting the strictures of the Eleventh Amendment to a suit for a money judgment, would ignore the explicit language and contradict the very words of the Amendment itself. Edelman did not embrace, much less imply, any such proposition.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
4 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.