406 F. Supp. 717 - Warner v. Croft’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Monroe v. Pape · Griffin v. Breckenridge · United States v. Price · Mizell v. North Broward Hospital District
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cases are clear that not all acts of a State official are under color of state law. It is the nature of an act performed by a State official and not merely his status as a state official which is determinative of whether his act is under color of State law.... Not all acts of a police officer are under color of State law.... “If [a police officer] were acting wholly as a private citizen in this alleged assault, and did not use the ‘pretense’ of his office’s legal authority, ... or act under the authority of a ‘policeman’s badge,’ ... the Civil Rights Act would not provide plaintiff with a vehicle for recovery....””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Manning v. Jones
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.