Sherwinski v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
98 F.3d 849 · 1996
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Henry v. Lake Charles American Press, L.L.C. (2009), Martinez v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice (2002)
7 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority v. Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. · Welch v. Texas Department of Highways & Public Transportation
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court will give effect to a State's waiver of Eleventh Amendment immunity only where stated by the most express language or by such overwhelming implication from the text as [will] leave no room for any other reasonable construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[u]ntil the factual and legal basis of the case has been further developed, no defendants will be dismissed.'”
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.