Fordice v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2017
16 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. § 9604 (§ 104 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 5 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson · Morton v. Ruiz · Franklin v. Massachusetts · Clarkson Co. v. Shaheen · 421 So. 2d 1046 - Pruett v. City of Rosedale
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should not be construed to immunize governmental authorities and agencies from suits other than for money damages. Consequently, the Governor's claim that sovereign immunity bars this action against him must fail.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This Court has repeatedly held that our courts have the power to hear claims that public officials have violated their mandatory, non-discretionary duties of office.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The statute expressly excludes the Legislature and the courts, but it does not exclude the governor. If the Legislature had not intended for the governor to be considered an agency, it could easily have said so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.