Spampinato v. M. Breger & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
270 F.2d 46 · 1959
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 1996 · most notably Birnbaum v. Trussell (1966), Birnbaum v. Trussell (1965)
20 federal appellate · 8 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 Snowden v. Hughes · Collins v. Hardyman · Wayne United Gas Co. v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. · Lovell Manufacturing Co. v. Etten · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Board of Directors of City Trusts of City of Philadelphia
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 1983 of the Civil Rights statutes preserves constitutional rights from infringement by persons who act under federal or state authority, not private citizens who commit wrongful acts, however wilful and malicious they may be. [Citing cases.] Section 1985 of the Civil Rights statutes applies to a conspiracy of private persons but only where the object of the conspiracy is to deprive .a person of equal protection of the laws. [Citing cases.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duzynski v. Nosal
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.