Wong v. Stripling’s Empirical Analysis
881 F.2d 200 · 1989
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Parker & Parsley Petroleum Co. v. Dresser Industries (1992), Bass v. Parkwood Hospital (1999)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Blum v. Yaretsky · United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local 610 v. Scott
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendants conspired (2) for the 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) one more of the conspirators committed some act in furtherance of the conspiracy; whereby (4) another person is injured in his person or property or deprived of having and exercising any right or privilege of a citizen of the United States; and (5) the action of the conspirators is motivated by a racial animus.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a State normally can be held responsible for a private decision only when it has exercised coercive power or has provided such significant encouragement, either overt or covert, that the choice must in law be deemed to be that of the State.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“private entity may be deemed a state actor when that entity performs a function which is traditionally the exclusive province of the state.”
2 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.