Malak v. Associated Physicians, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 277 · 1986
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Haynesworth v. Miller (1987), General Electric Capital Corporation v. Lease Resolution Corporation (1997)
66 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Monroe v. Pape · Bell v. Hood
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough a district court certainly should give notice to the parties when the court converts a 12(b)(6) motion into a motion for summary judgment, the failure to do so does not necessarily mandate reversal where nothing else could have been raised to alter the entry of summary judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A private defendant acts 'under color of' state law for purposes of Section 1983 when [it] is 'a willful participant in joint action with the State or its agents.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the conduct of a public hospital and its employees is clearly state action....”
3 later decisions 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.