Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital’s Empirical Analysis
323 F.2d 959 · 1963
Citation profile
116 federal appellate · 20 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 228 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1997 · most notably Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. (1982), Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979)
116 federal appellate · 20 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Bolling v. Sharpe · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Shelley v. Kraemer · Brown v. Board of Education
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 228 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"And it is, of course, clear that when a State function or responsibility is being exercised, it matters not for Fourteenth Amendment purposes that the * * * [institution actually chosen] would otherwise be private: the equal protection guarantee applies."”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“available to all persons residing in the territorial area of the applicant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“without discrimination on account of race, creed, or color,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.