Wang v. New Hampshire Board of Registration in Medicine’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 698 · 1995
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 55 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Olsen v. Idaho State Board of Medicine (2004), Fantini v. Salem State College (2009)
29 federal appellate · 55 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Imbler v. Pachtman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Pierson v. Ray
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [I]t is well settled “that neither a state agency nor a state official acting in his official capacity may be sued for damages in a section 1983 action,” Johnson v. Rodriguez, 943 F.2d 104 , 108 (1st Cir.1991) (citing Will v. Michigan Dep’t of State Police, 491 U.S. 58 , 71, 109 S.Ct. 2304 , 2312, 105 L.Ed.2d 45 (1989)), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 1063 , 112 S.Ct. 948 , 117 L.Ed.2d 117 (1992); see also Kaimowitz v. Board of Trustees, Univ. of Ill., 951 F.2d 765 , 767 (7th Cir.1991) (finding that, as neither the state nor its “alter ego” (state university) is a “person” for section 1983 purposes, neither is subject to suit under section 1983) ...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[l]ower federal courts are without subject matter jurisdiction to sit in direct review of state court decisions,”
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.