Shaffer v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
634 F.2d 1259 · 1980
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Sooner Products Co. v. McBride (1983), Lindley v. Amoco Production Co. (1981)
11 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Estelle v. Gamble · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Stump v. Sparkman · Federal Energy Administration v. Algonquin SNG, Inc.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no cause of action under the Civil Rights Act in this case where the state did no more than furnish a forum to private parties and had no interest in the outcome”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[l]awyers do not act under color of state law solely by engaging in private litigation on behalf of their clients.”
2 later decisions 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.