Long v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
525 F.2d 74 · 1975
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2011 · most notably Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. (1982), Hall v. Medical College of Ohio (1984)
27 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Vlandis v. Kline · Great Northern Life Ins Co v. Read · Murray v. Wilson Distilling Co.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case, however, the University of Tennessee was created, only a few years after the ratification of the eleventh amendment, with the unrestricted right to sue and to be sued “in any court of law or equity.” We see no indication that this sweeping consent was intended to be limited to suits brought in the state courts. To the contrary, by its terms the consent is general and purports to apply to any court and to any type of suit. 513 F.2d at 353 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The board shall have such other powers as are necessary . . . and it is the expressed legislative intent and purpose to vest similar and comparable responsibility and authority in the board as is authorized for the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee. . . . ” [T.C.A. § 49-3239 Supp. 1974.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“could be sued in any court of law or equity in this state or elsewhere.”
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.