Harkins v. Eldredge’s Empirical Analysis
505 F.2d 802 · 1974
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Spencer v. Lee (1989), Munz v. Parr (1985)
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Thomas v. United States · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · Barnes v. Dorsey · Duhart v. Carlson · Feldman v. State Board of Law Examiners
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The conduct of counsel, either retained or appointed, in representing clients does not constitute action under color of state law for purposes of a § 1983 violation.” Harkins v. Eldredge, 505 F.2d 802 (8th Cir. 1974); See also, Barnes v. Dorsey, 480 F.2d 1057 (8th Cir. 1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Harris
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.