Ronwin v. Shapiro’s Empirical Analysis
657 F.2d 1071 · 1981
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 15 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. (1982), Jackson v. Hayakawa (1982)
31 federal appellate · 15 district · 6 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Edelman v. Jordan · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Great Northern Life Ins Co v. Read · Kilcullen v. United States
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a state should not be able to turn a purely intramural arrangement with its officers into an extension of sovereign immunity.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“crucial question ... is whether the named defendant has such independent status that a judgment against the defendant would not impact the state treasury.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the state and its departments, agencies, boards and commissions ....”
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.