Peter S. Sarelas v. George S. Porikos’s Empirical Analysis
320 F.2d 827 · 1963
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 1989 · most notably Dayco Corp. v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1975), Cia. Petrolera Caribe, Inc. v. Arco Caribbean, Inc. (1985)
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 Skolnick v. Martin
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Lawyers who participate in the trial of private state court litigation are not state functionaries acting under color of state law within the meaning of the Federal Civil Rights Acts.”
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.