Sims v. Jefferson Downs, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 609 · 1980
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Morast v. Lance (1987), Daniels v. Twin Oaks Nursing Home (1982)
15 federal appellate · 1 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Flagg Brothers Inc v. Brooks J Lefkowitz
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here are substantial factual indicia that Jefferson Downs had availed itself of the commission’s regulatory powers in aid of its expulsion of Sims from its track, particularly through the track stewards, state regulatory agents, all three of whom however are paid by Jefferson Downs. The record thus demonstrates a disputed issue of material fact concerning the involvement of state agents acting under color of state law and their close connexity with the expulsion by Jefferson Downs of Sims from its race track because of his exercise of alleged constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The defendants must conspire or go in disguise on the highway or premises of another; (2) for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws; and (3) one or more of the conspirators must commit some act in furtherance of the conspiracy; whereby (4) another is either (a) injured in his person or property or (b) deprived of having and exercising any right of privilege of a citizen of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any horsemen or licensed personnel or their agents causing, creating or lending to the incitement of a strike, or through compulsion discourag[ing] any horseman from entering horses in regularly scheduled races in order to create a malfunction in scheduling a race program, or to harass or embarrass the Commission, track management or any agency connected with racing shall be called before the Commission to show cause why their license should not be revoked.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.