Sossamon v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
563 U.S. 277 · 2011
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Sossamon v. Texas (2011), United States v. Seidman (1998)
21 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1715Z · 15 U.S.C. § 6309 · 15 U.S.C. § 797 · 16 U.S.C. § 973I · 20 U.S.C. § 1681 (§ 901 of the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972) · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 2 U.S.C. § 437G (§ 309 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971)
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Bell v. Hood · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a statute is susceptible of multiple plausible interpretations, including one preserving immunity, we will not consider a State to have waived its sovereign immunity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]lear statement rules ensure Congress does not, by broad or general language, legislate on a sensitive topic inadvertently or without due deliberation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he context here--where the defendant is a sovereign--suggests, if anything, that monetary damages are not 'suitable' or 'proper.'”
2 later decisions 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.