Schnapper v. Foley’s Empirical Analysis
667 F.2d 102 · 1981
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2013 · most notably Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises (1985), Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios Inc (1984)
27 federal appellate · 17 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Singleton v. Wulff · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · William Marbury v. James Madison · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action in a court of the United States seeking relief other than money damages and stating a claim that an agency or an officer or employee thereof acted or failed to act in an official capacity or under color of legal authority shall not be dismissed nor relief therein be denied on the ground that it is against the United States----”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The legislative history of this provision could not be more lucid. It states that this language was intended ‘to eliminate the defense of sovereign immunity with respect to any action in a court of the United States seeking relief other than money damages and based on the assertion of unlawful official action by a federal official____’ S.Rep. No. 996, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. at 2 (1976).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he introductory language of the copyright clause does not limit [the Congress's] power.”
2 later decisions 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.