William C. Cameron v. John C. Brock’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.2d 608 · 1973
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic (1993), Aulson v. Blanchard (1996)
66 federal appellate · 10 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 Griffin v. Breckenridge · Snowden v. Hughes · Regina Lee Azar v. James R. Conley · Ivy v. Osborne
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a plaintiff can show that he was denied the protection of the law because of the class of which he was a member”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) existence of a conspiracy of two or more persons; (2) the purpose of the conspiracy is to deprive a person or class of persons of equal protection of laws or privileges and immunities under the laws; (3) an act in furtherance of the conspiracy ; and (4) injury or deprivation of the rights of plaintiff.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“there must be some racial, or perhaps otherwise class based, invidiously discriminatory animus behind the conspirators' action.”
2 later decisions 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.