Croy v. Skinner’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably Bell v. City of Milwaukee (1984), Santiago v. City of Philadelphia (1977)
8 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 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 · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Pierson v. Ray · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Rizzo v. Goode
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]solated threats and accusations, coupled with derogatory references to plaintiff's character and ethnic background [which] simply do not state a claim for conspiratorial action in violation of plaintiff's civil rights.”
2 later decisions 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.