Eaton v. Grubbs’s Empirical Analysis
329 F.2d 710 · 1964
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Cypress v. Newport News General & Nonsectarian Hospital Ass'n (1967), Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital (2009)
23 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 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 42 U.S.C. § 1531
Relies on Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital · Board of Managers of the James Walker Memorial Hospital v. City of Wilmington · City of Charlotte v. Heath · Minney v. City of Azusa
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not suggested that each of the enumerated factors has independent potency to invoke the constitutional requirement. It is enough for present purposes to hold, as we do, that the record in its entirety leads to the conclusion that the hospital is performing the state’s function and is the chosen instrument of the state. Under our constitutional commitment the James Walker Hospital is therefore bound by the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to refrain from the discrimination alleged in the complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“demonstrate[d] the pervasive nature of the state's role in the functioning of the defendant hospital, day by day and over the span of years.”
1 later decision 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.