City of East St. Louis v. Circuit Court for Twentieth Judicial Circuit’s Empirical Analysis
986 F.2d 1142 · 1993
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Flaherty v. Gas Research Institute (1994), Richard M. Fogel, as Trustee for the Estate of Madison Management Group, Inc. v. Samuel Zell, Appeal of City and County of Denver (2000)
18 federal appellate · 3 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 Warth v. Seldin · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Flast v. Cohen · Business Guides, Inc. v. Chromatic Communications Enterprises, Inc. · Brendale v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]unicipalities cannot challenge state action on federal constitutional grounds because they are not 'persons' [and] . . . cannot invoke the protection of the Fifth or Fourteenth Amendments”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Counsel may not drop papers into the hopper and insist that the court or opposing counsel undertake bothersome factual and legal investigation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“result is foreordained by the lack of substance of appellant's arguments.”
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.