Blank v. Heineman’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2014
3 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1971 (Civil Rights Act of 1957) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Griffin v. Breckenridge · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local 610 v. Scott · Volk v. Coler · Action, Percy Green v. Rowland E. Gannon
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case, plaintiffs argued at hearing that if the defendants are not prevented from removing them from their positions based on the plaintiffs’ religious beliefs, ultimately primary and general elections will be affected. The plaintiffs reason that there will be a lack of candidates with certain religious beliefs progressing from lower levels within the Republican party itself to positions in electoral races. The plaintiffs therefore attempt to transform the internal affairs of the Republican party in this case into activity affecting primary and general elections that would constitute state action. The Court finds plaintiffs’ argument which' attempts to “bootstrap” and transform actions relating solely to the internal activity of a political party into activity which constitutes state action to be unpersuasive. Simply stated, the plaintiffs’ argument, carried to its logical extension, would transform any action of a political party involving internal affairs into state action. Courts generally and consistently have been reluctant to interfere with the internal operations of a political party, [citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Defendants [sic] actions toward Plaintiff were not state actions that would subject Defendants to Section 1983 claims. Defendants’ actions were internal to the party and are permissible by statute of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 25 P.S. § 2837, and by the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. Plaintiff is correct that the RCLC has a role as a state actor in primary elections, ... but that does not make all of RCLC’s actions state actions, as Plaintiff contends.”
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.