Silk v. City of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
194 F.3d 788 · 1999
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 232 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Lucas v. W.W. Grainger, Inc. (2001), Shotz v. City of Plantation (2003)
98 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12102 (§ 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12111 (§ 101 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12112 (§ 102 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12203 (§ 503 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson
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 232 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`with respect to [the employee's] compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment.' 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1). The cases paraphrase this requirement either as `a tangible employment action,' that is, `a significant change in employment status, such as hiring, firing, failing to promote, reassignment with significantly different responsibilities, or a decision causing a significant change in benefits,' or as a `materially adverse employment action.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) [h]as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual; (b) has a record of such impairment; or (c) is regarded as having such an impairment.”
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.