Phillips v. Naff’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We conclude, therefore, that the restrictive agreements standing alone cannot be regarded as violative of any rights guaranteed to petitioners by the Fourteenth Amendment. So long as the purposes of those agreements are effectuated by voluntary adherence to their terms, it would appear clear that there has been no action by the State and the provisions of the Amendment have not been violated. [Citation.] 30 “But here there was more. These are eases in which the purposes of the agreements were secured only by judicial enforcement by state courts of the restrictive terms of the agreement.” (Italics added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 112 Cal. App. 2d 534 - Barrows v. Jackson

2. ““Nor is the Amendment ineffective simply because the particular pattern of discrimination, which the State has enforced, was defined initially by the terms of a private agreement. State action, as that phrase is understood for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment, refers to exertions of state power in all forms.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 112 Cal. App. 2d 534 - Barrows v. Jackson