No. 91-1673’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2013
6 federal appellate · 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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Kentucky v. Graham · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Hans v. State of Louisiana
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is the existence, and not the strength, of the claim that activates the eleventh amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the State in or on whose submerged lands the shipwreck is located.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 93-1426
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.