Townsend v. Edelman’s Empirical Analysis
518 F.2d 116 · 1975
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably 20 Cal. 3d 25 - Serrano v. Priest (1977), Shimman v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 18 (1984)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · King v. Smith · Huddleston v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This appeal and cross-appeal raise two issues. First, whether a monetary award in the form of benefits withheld from the plaintiff class by defendant state officials is barred by the Eleventh Amendment. Second, whether attorneys’ fees can be assessed against the defendants for defending the Illinois statute and policy challenged by this action. 518 F.2d at 118 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Townsend v. Quern“[t]he fact that the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted after the Eleventh Amendment does not abrogate the latter in cases involving the former. The two amendments must be interpreted in light of each other.”
1 later decision 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.