Dellmuth v. A Muth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
153 federal appellate · 68 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 544 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Will v. Michigan Department of State Police (1989), United States v. Lopez (1995)
153 federal appellate · 68 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.
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1400 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975) · 20 U.S.C. § 1411 · 20 U.S.C. § 1415 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp.
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 544 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]vidence of congressional intent must be both unequivocal and textual.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress may abrogate the States' constitutionally secured immunity from suit in federal court only by making its intention unmistakably clear in the language of the statute.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unmistakably clear in the language of the statute.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.