Minotti v. Lensink’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 607 · 1986
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. v. W.R. Grace & Co. (1996), Dube v. State University of New York (1990)
32 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the essence of the immunity is the possessor's right not to be haled into court--a right that cannot be vindicated after trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Reagan · Siegert v. Gilley“[W]hen the action is in essence one for the recovery of money from the state, the state is the real, substantial party in interest and is entitled to invoke its sovereign immunity from suit even though individual officials are nominal defendants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the eleventh amendment immunity protects state officials sued for damages in their official capacity.”
1 later decision 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.