Mullarkey v. Borglum’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1999
2 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Monroe v. Pape · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Shelley v. Kraemer · United States v. Classic
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[i]f two or more persons in any State or Territory- conspire to deter, by force, intimidation, or threat, any party or witness in any court of the United States from attending such court, or from testifying to any matter pending therein, freely, fully, and truthfully, or to injure such party or witness in his person or property on account of his having so attended or testified, or to influence the verdict, presentment, or indictment of any grant or petit juror in any such court, or to injure such juror in his person or property on account of any verdict, presentment, or indictment lawfully assented to by him, or of his being or having been such juror; . . . the party so injured . . . may have an action . . . against . the conspirators.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bergman v. Stein““When a complaint meets the first requirement and the defendant is a state officer or official, the second requirement is automatically met.” Mullarkey v. Borgum, 323 F.Supp. 1218, 1224 (S.D.N.Y.1970).”
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.