Carlin Communications, Inc. v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.’s Empirical Analysis
827 F.2d 1291 · 1987
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1996), Sutton v. Providence St. Joseph Medical Center (1999)
18 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 47 U.S.C. § 223
Relies on Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Blum v. Yaretsky · Freedman v. Maryland · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With this threat, Arizona `exercised coercive power' over Mountain Bell and thereby converted its otherwise private conduct into state action for purposes of S 1983.”
1 later decision 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.