Smith v. Reagan’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 28 · 1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably X-Men Security, Inc. v. Pataki (1999), Everson v. Leis (2009)
13 federal appellate ·
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. § 5121 (Community Disaster Resilience Zones Act of 2022) · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Edelman v. Jordan · Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer · Atascadero State Hospital v. Scanlon
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The failure of the district court to decide the State's [Eleventh Amendment immunity] motion does not alter the State's right to have an early determination of its claim of immunity. By holding the decision in abeyance pending the completion of all discovery in the case, the district court effectively denie[s] that right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“decisions regarding eleventh amendment immunity may be tested on appeal under the collateral order doctrine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shabazz v. Coughlin
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.