McAuliffe v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.2d 1305 · 1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2013
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 · Hans v. State of Louisiana · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Employees of Department of Public Health Welfare Missouri v. Department of Public Health & Welfare Missouri
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven ... where the claim is that the state has illegally taken or used plaintiffs property, not merely wrongfully withheld it, the Eleventh Amendment applies with full force; and neither the means of obtaining such funds nor the formalities of the manner in which they are held limits the scope of the Eleventh Amendment rejection of federal judicial power.”
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.