Leahy v. Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 508’s Empirical Analysis
912 F.2d 917 · 1990
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Perkins v. Silverstein (1991), Early v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. (1992)
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]o act “under the color of’ state law for § 1983 purposes does not require that the defendant be an officer of the State. It is enough that he is a willful participant in joint action with the State or its agents. Private persons, jointly engaged with state officials in the challenged action, are acting ... “under col- or” of law for purposes of § 1983 actions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“must allege facts which ... would show that the Union, a private entity, was acting under color of state law ....”
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.