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Davidson v. Howe’s Empirical Analysis

749 F.3d 21 · 2014

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
March 2025
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 12 district ·

Relationships

Applies 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · Powell v. McCormack

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “will find waiver only where stated 'by the most express language or by such overwhelming implications from the text as [will] leave no room for any other reasonable construction.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Congress may abrogate the States' constitutionally secured immunity from suit in federal court . . . by making its intention unmistakably clear in the language of the statute,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “interest in attorney's fees is . . . insufficient to create an Article III case or controversy where none exists on the merits of the underlying claim.”
    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.