716 F. Supp. 1047 - Evans v. Celeste’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2009
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Kentucky v. Graham · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · Van Fossen v. Babcock & Wilcox Co. · Kiser v. Coleman · Kilbreath v. Rudy
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he determination as to whether the state is implicated by a particular claim involves the core of the state's sovereignty and affects whether it will be held liable for damages and whether recovery will be made out of its treasury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.