Ainsworth Aristocrat International Pty. Ltd. v. Tourism Co.’s Empirical Analysis
818 F.2d 1034 · 1987
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 49 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Marquis v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1992), Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. v. Puerto Rico Aqueduct & Sewer Authority (1993)
34 federal appellate · 49 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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Monroe v. Pape · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · National Farmers Union Insurance v. Crow Tribe of Indians
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“local law and decisions defining the nature of the agency involved; whether payment of any judgment will come out of the state treasury; whether the agency is performing a governmental or proprietary function; the agency’s degree of autonomy; the power of the agency to sue and be sued and enter into contracts; whether the agency’s property is immune from state taxation and whether the state has insulated itself from responsibility for the agency’s operations.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Company is largely funded through the monies it receives as a result of its slot machine concessions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When an action is brought against a public agency or institution, the application of the Eleventh Amendment depends upon whether the entity ‘is to be treated as an arm [or alter ego] of the State partaking of the State’s Eleventh Amendment immunity, or is instead to be treated as a municipal corporation or other political subdivision to which the Eleventh Amendment does not extend.’ ” Id. (citing Mt. Healthy City School Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274, 280 , 97 S.Ct. 568, 572-73 , 50 L.Ed.2d 471 (1977)).”
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.