Warnock v. Pecos County’s Empirical Analysis
88 F.3d 341 · 1996
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition v. Rowland (2007), Buchwald v. University of New Mexico School of Medicine (1998)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Mitchell v. Forsyth · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Hutto v. Finney
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs claim for prospective relief (reinstatement), however, is not barred by sovereign immunity. The Eleventh Amendment does not protect state officials from claims for prospective relief when it is alleged that the state officials acted in violation of federal law. Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 , 155-56, 28 S.Ct. 441 , 452, 52 L.Ed. 714 (1908); Edelman v. Jordan, 415 U.S. 651 , 664, 94 S.Ct. 1347 , 1356, 39 L.Ed.2d 662 (1974); Brennan v. Stewart, 834 F.2d 1248 , 1252 (5th Cir.1988).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because [Eleventh Amendment] sovereign immunity deprives the court of jurisdiction, the claims barred by sovereign immunity can be dismissed only under Rule 12(b)(1) and not with prejudice.”
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.