Green v. Mansour’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
607 federal appellate · 403 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,354 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Will v. Michigan Department of State Police (1989), Papasan v. Allain (1986)
607 federal appellate · 403 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 11 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Younger v. Harris · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman
Cited together with Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · 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 2,354 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“necessary to vindicate the federal interest in assuring the supremacy of that law.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“have much the same effect as a full-fledged award of damages or restitution by the federal court,”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless [it] consent[s] to [such suits] in unequivocal terms or unless Congress, pursuant to a valid exercise of power, unequivocally expresses its intent to abrogate the immunity,”
22 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.