Conklin v. Lovely’s Empirical Analysis
834 F.2d 543 · 1987
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Aulson v. Blanchard (1996), New York State National Organization for Women v. Terry (1989)
60 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 7604
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Perry v. Sindermann · Connick v. Myers · Elrod v. Burns
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If two or more persons ... conspire ... for the purpose of depriving ... any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities, under the laws ... the party so injured or deprived may have an action for the recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or deprivation, against any one or more of the conspirators.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) A conspiracy; (2) for purposes of depriving either directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws; and (3) an action in furtherance of the conspiracy; (4) whereby a person is either injured in his person or property or deprived of any right or privilege of a citizen of the United States. Id. at 828-29, 103 S.Ct. at 3356 . (construing Griffin v. Breckenridge, 403 U.S. 88 , 91 S.Ct. 1790 , 29 L.Ed.2d 338 (1971).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Asmar v. Keilman“We recognize other circuits post-[Scoíí ] have restricted § 1985(3) to conspiracies directed at racial classes. We, however, are not writing on a clean slate.... As [Scott ] leaves open the question, we are bound by Cameron .”
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.