Harvey v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
949 F.2d 1127 · 1992
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Street v. Corrections Corp. of America (1996), Sutton v. Providence St. Joseph Medical Center (1999)
28 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · West v. Atkins
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the State had so far insinuated itself into a position of interdependence with the [private parties] that it was a joint participant in the enterprise[]”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]nly in rare circumstances can a private party be viewed as a 'state actor' for Section 1983 purposes.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At most, the ... statute functions as a licensing provision enabling the hospital to receive mental patients; licensing and regulation are not enough to transform private hospitals into state actors for section 1983 purposes. To hold otherwise would expose private hospitals and private physicians to section 1983 liability whenever they act pursuant to ... [a] commitment statute, despite the fact their actions ultimately reflect medical judgments made according to professional standards that are not established by the state.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.