Crowder II v. Jk Conlan’s Empirical Analysis
740 F.2d 447 · 1984
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital (2009), Wolotsky v. Huhn (1992)
41 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Polk County v. Dodson · Blum v. Yaretsky
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the connections between the State and the [hospital] are insufficiently linked to the challenged actions of the defendants to warrant a finding of state action in the hospital's decision to restrict Dr. Crowder's staff privileges. Therefore, Dr. Crowder has not stated a claim for relief under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a sufficiently close nexus between the state and the challenged action of the regulated entity so that the action of the latter may be fairly treated as that of the state itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“coercive power or has provided such significant encouragement, either overt or covert, that the choice must in law be deemed to be that of the State.”
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.