Lee v. Patel’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Shelley v. Kraemer
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hough “the procedural scheme created by the statute obviously is the product of state action,” ... without a procedural challenge to the State statute on due process grounds plaintiffs’ § 1983 claim fails to establish that defendant, a private person, engaged in State action under the due process clause and action under color of State law under § 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Court in Lugar emphasized that a complaint that does not challenge the constitutionality of a State statute but merely alleges misuse of the State statute by a private person “does not state a cause of action under § 1983 but challenges only private action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“of the United States. Second, the plaintiff must show that the defendant deprived him of this constitutional right”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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