Browns v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.2d 593 · 1969
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 13 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Schmid (1980), Blackburn v. Fisk University (1971)
34 federal appellate · 13 district · 3 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Shelley v. Kraemer · United States v. Price · Marsh v. State of Alabama · Civil Rights Cases
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Inasmuch as the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , is concerned only with state action and does not concern itself with federal action we lay to one side as entirely irrelevant any evidence concerning the participation of the federal government in the affairs of the University. See Grossner v. Trustees of Columbia University, 287 F.Supp. 535 , 547 (S.D.N.Y. 1968).” Browns v. Mitchell, 409 F.2d 593 , 595 (10th Cir.).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"We may concede, without deciding, that judged by the totality of its public functions this University may be likened to Marsh and Logan Plaza for the purpose of exercising First and Fourteenth Amendment rights in its public ways."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is axiomatic that the due process provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment proscribe state action only and do not reach acts of private persons unless they are acting `under color of state law.'”
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.