Mershon v. Beasley’s Empirical Analysis
994 F.2d 449 · 1993
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Moran v. Clarke (2002), Johnson v. Outboard Marine Corp. (1999)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Dennis v. Sparks · Puerto Rico Department of Consumer Affairs v. Isla Petroleum Corp. · Gramenos v. Jewel Companies, Inc. · Moore v. Marketplace Restaurant, Inc. · Sanders v. Daniel International Corp.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`must allege, at the very least, that there was a mutual understanding, or a meeting of the minds, between the private party and the state actor.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a willing participant in joint action with the State or its agents.”
3 later decisions 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.