Stith v. Barnwell’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2007
6 federal appellate · 5 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. § 372 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Griffin v. Breckenridge · Brown v. General Services Administration · Runyon v. McCrary · Moor v. County of Alameda · United States v. Price
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Federal employees would usually be acting under color of federal, and not state, law. The text of § 1985(3), however, does not indicate that defendant must be acting under color of any law, state or federal. As previously mentioned, the Supreme Court, in Griffin , rejected the requirement of state action, at least where racial discrimination is involved. In addition, the Supreme Court, in Griffin , said that § 1985(3) was aimed at all conspiracies which deprive persons of certain federally protected rights. Given the Supreme Court’s decision in Griffin and the plain language of § 1985(3), the Court is of the opinion that the subsection would apply to federal defendants who participate in a conspiracy that would otherwise be proscribed by the subsection. See Alvarez v. Wilson, 431 F.Supp. 136 (N.D.Ill. 1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the text, context, and history of the statute, though not totally free from doubt, lead to the conclusion that federal officials may be sued under § 1985(1) ... if the complaint alleges racial discrimination”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawrence v. Acree“If the plaintiff's violations, once proven, would constitute a violation of § 2000e-16 [§ 717], the plaintiff's claim is not cognizable under § 1985(1) or (3).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baird v. Haith
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.