Perez v. Sugarman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions

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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[C]onduct which is formally “private” may become so entwined with governmental policies or so impregnated with a governmental character as to become subject to the constitutional limitations placed upon state action .... In certain instances the actions of private entities may be considered to be infused with “state action” if those private parties are performing a function public or governmental in nature and which would have to be performed by the Government but for the activities of the private parties.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2 F. Supp. 2d 281 - Kia P. v. McIntyre · 581 F. Supp. 2d 365 - Vs Ex Rel. TS v. Muhammad

2. “[T]he statutory scheme expressly contemplates that in performing this public function of caring for [the mentally disabled] the State may utilize private entities of the sort we have here. This is precisely what the [county] officials did when they transferred [plaintiff] to the care of [New York Hospital]. But, as the statute makes incontrovertibly clear, it is the State which in effect is providing the care through the private institutions. This exercise of the administrative placing prerogative does not affect in any way the State’s ultimate responsibility for the well-being of the [plaintiff] and, consequently, the public nature of the function being performed.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 453 F. Supp. 1062 - Ruffler v. Phelps Memorial Hospital · Taylor v. First Wyoming Bank, N.A.

3. “conduct that is formally private [] become[s] so entwined with governmental policies or so impregnated with a governmental character [such private conduct may] become[ ] subject to the constitutional limitations placed on state action.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 581 F. Supp. 2d 365 - Vs Ex Rel. TS v. Muhammad · Kia Mora v. Rosemary McIntyre Doran Delamothe Barbara Sabol Robert Little New York City Long Island College Hospital Susan Morance