Lawrence County v. Lead-Deadwood School District No. 40-1’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
116 federal appellate · 18 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 275 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr (1996), New York v. United States (1992)
116 federal appellate · 18 district · 26 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.
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 236 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 31 U.S.C. § 6901 (Payments In Lieu of Taxes Act) · 31 U.S.C. § 6902 · 31 U.S.C. § 6904 · 31 U.S.C. § 6907
Relies on Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Hines v. Davidowitz · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · King v. Smith · Silkwood v. Corporation
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 275 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] plaintiff who seeks injunctive relief from state regulation, on the ground that such regulation is preempted by a federal statute which, by virtue of the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, must prevail, ... presents a federal question which the federal courts have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 to resolve.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“it is far from a novel proposition that pursuant to powers under the Spending Clause, Congress may impose conditions on the receipt of federal funds absent some independent constitutional bar”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress”
2 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.