Julius Corpus v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Dept. Of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1996
2 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Edelman v. Jordan · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Quern v. Jordan
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress successfully overcame the states' sovereign immunity by passing the [Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Award] Act under its section 5 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.