Sumpter v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
683 F.2d 106 · 1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2009
3 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 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D
Relies on Polk County v. Dodson · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Drayden v. Needville Independent School District · Hall v. Quillen · Taylor v. Cohen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a physician, even when acting under court appointment, does not do so ‘under color of state law' by merely practicing medicine ... where the only link is a State license to practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the broader question of whether any right of action is available to a private litigant under [Title VI].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.