Ranyard v. Board of Regents’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 1235 · 1983
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2015
10 federal appellate · 3 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 Edelman v. Jordan · Quern v. Jordan · Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Michel 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although there is no generally accepted test for determining whether a state entity is an arm of the state, the Supreme Court in Quern v. Jordan, 440 U.S. 332, 337 , 99 S.Ct. 1139, 1143 , 59 L.Ed.2d 358 (1979), indicated that the critical inquiry is whether a judgment would be paid from public funds in the state treasury. Among the subsidiary factors to be considered are whether the state entity can sue and be sued, whether it performs an essential governmental function, and whether it enjoys a substantial degree of political independence from the state.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. JAW v. State · J.A.W. v. State“Each state university exists in a unique governmental context, and each must be considered on the basis of its own peculiar circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“to sue and be sued, provided that any suit against the Board based upon a claim sounding in tort must be filed in the Court of Claims.”
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.