Collins v. Womancare’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 1145 · 1989
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 15 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Jones v. Kmart Corp. (1998), Sloman v. Tadlock (1994)
52 federal appellate · 15 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 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 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 · Monroe v. Pape · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · West v. Atkins · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co.
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Joint action ... requires a substantial degree of cooperative action.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“must be caused by the exercise of some right or privilege created by the [government] or a rule of conduct imposed by the[government].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[P]rivate misuse of a [federal] statute does not describe conduct that can be attributed to the [government].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hsu · Jean Hsu Kenneth Hsu Terabyte International, Inc. v. Intel Corporation Thomas R. Lavelle, Terabyte International, Inc. Jean Hsu Kenneth Hsu R. Joseph Trojan v. Intel Corporation Thomas R. Lavelle Irving Rappaport, Jean Hsu Terabyte International, Inc. Kenneth Hsu v. Intel Corporation Thomas R. Lavelle
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.