Dagnall v. Gegenheimer’s Empirical Analysis
645 F.2d 2 · 1981
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2002
9 federal appellate ·
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 Edelman v. Jordan · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Dagnall v. Gegenheimer · American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Madison Parish Police Jury
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State has asserted its immunity only after it sought a favorable verdict and lost before the jury. Had it prevailed, Louisiana would doubtless be claiming the case was tried with its consent. That today’s decision might permit such an inequity cannot overcome Louisiana's plain constitutional right in the absence of clearly expressed Louisiana law to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not dispute the Department (of Highways)'s claim that it is a state agency entitled to invoke eleventh amendment limitation on the judicial power of the United States.”
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.