Vanlaarhoven v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2007
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Edelman v. Jordan · Quern v. Jordan · Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the agency’s capacity to sue and be sued, the extent to which an agency has autonomy over its operations, whether the agency performs a traditional governmental function and whether a judgment against an agency would be paid from the state treasury. Id. at 148 (citing R.I. Affiliate Am. Civil Liberties Union v. R.I. Lottery Comm’n, 553 F.Supp. 752 , 763 (D.R.I.1982), George R. Whitten, Jr., Inc. v. State University Construction Fund, 493 F.2d 177, 179-80 (1st Cir. 1974).... ‘Only where an agency functions without meaningful fiscal and operational autonomy from the state can it partake of the state’s Eleventh Amendment immunity.’ Vanlaarhoven, 564 F.Supp. at 148 (citations omitted). 2”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) There is hereby created a board of governors for higher education, sometimes hereinafter referred to as the “board” or the "board of governors”, which shall be and hereby is constituted a public corporation, empowered to sue and be sued in its own name, to have a corporate seal, and to exercise all the powers, in addition to those hereinafter specifically enumerated, usually appertaining to public corporations entrusted with control of post-secondary educational institutions and functions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.”
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.