Castellano v. City of New York’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.3d 58 · 1998
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Henrietta v. Bloomberg (2003), Jute v. Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (2005)
38 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 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 Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · Alexander v. Choate · General Motors Corp. v. Romein · Marks v. United States · Bernheim v. Litt
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the language is ambiguous, we focus upon the broader context and primary purpose of the statute.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Esther Smith, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Local 819 I.B.T. Pension Plan the Board of Trustees of the Local 819 I.B.T. Pension Plan, Defendants-Third-Party the Board of Trustees of Teamsters Local 819 Pension Fund, Individually and on Behalf of the Teamsters Local 819 Pension Fund, Third-Party v. Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Third-Party · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Staten Island Savings Bank“(1) “persons covered by the ADA who qualify for both a service retirement and disability retirement plan are required to take a disability benefit which is less advantageous;” (2) “an employer requires persons covered by the ADA to serve 25 years to obtain a service retirement benefit, while persons not covered by the ADA are eligible for service retirement after 20 years;” (3) “persons covered by the ADA who earn a service retirement benefit are given a cost of living increase every third year of retirement, while all other service retirees receive an annual cost of living increasef.]””
2 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.