private conduct
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 334 U.S. 1 - Shelley v. Kraemer · 1948Most cited · 3,965 citing opinions
the action inhibited by the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment is only such action as may fairly be said to be that of the States. That Amendment erects no shield against merely private conduct, however discriminatory or wrongful.
How often courts cite the case defining “private conduct”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “private conduct” — 3,956 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.