Barnard v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 1188 · 1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Hahn v. Star Bank (1999), Angelico v. Lehigh Valley Hospital, Inc. (1999)
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · Polk County v. Dodson · United States v. Price · Innkeepers of New Castle, Inc. v. Maley
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“vast weight of authority that private attorneys, by virtue of being officers of the court, do not act under color of state law within the meaning of section 1983.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an attorney does not become a state actor merely by virtue of instigating state court litigation, then the attorney does not become a state actor merely by employing state authorized subpoena power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hahn v. Star Bank
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.