Allen v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
895 F.3d 337 · 2018
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 501 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 511 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Pearson v. Callahan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder Ex Parte Young [, 209 U.S. 123 , 28 S.Ct. 441 , 52 L.Ed. 714 (1908) ], private citizens may sue state officials in their official capacities in federal court to obtain prospective relief from ongoing violations of federal law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[The Ex Parte Young exception] to Eleventh Amendment immunity is designed to preserve the constitutional structure established by the Supremacy Clause and rests on the notion, often referred to as a fiction, that a state officer who acts unconstitutionally is stripped of his official or representative character and thus subjected in his person to the consequences of his individual conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“As the Supreme Court has made clear, a State must expressly consent to suit in federal court to waive its immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.”
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.