Coleman v. Turpen’s Empirical Analysis
697 F.2d 1341 · 1982
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Wilborn v. Escalderon (1986), No. 90-6051 (1991)
50 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Parratt v. Taylor · Imbler v. Pachtman · Fuentes v. Shevin
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the deprivation must be caused by the exercise of some right or privilege created by the State.... Second, the party charged with the deprivation must be a person who may fairly be said to be a state actor ... because he is a state official, because he has acted together with or has obtained significant aid from state officials, or because his conduct is otherwise chargeable to the State.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“jointly participated in seizing the truck by towing it away”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“seized property not used as evidence that the State did not intend to keep,”
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.