Thompson v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2005
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. Classic · Williams v. United States · Adams v. Pate · Betsy A. Jennings v. Ilus W. Davis · Draeger v. Grand Central, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“42 U.S.C.A. 1983. The statutory grant of power in this case is closely related to that which was found to constitute state action. The South Carolina Code Ann. Sec. 56 - 646.13 granted to the licensed security guards the authority and power which sheriffs of the state had to make arrests of any persons violating any of the criminal statutes of that state. That court reasoned that their statute closely resembled a Pennsylvania's Professional Thieves Act”
1 later decision 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.