RK Ventures, Inc. v. City of Seattle’s Empirical Analysis
307 F.3d 1045 · 2002
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Olsen v. Idaho State Board of Medicine (2004), Hildebrandt v. Illinois Department of Natural Resources (2003)
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1986 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan · Singleton v. Wulff · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“discrete discriminatory acts are not actionable if time barred, even when they are related to acts alleged in timely filed charges.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Morgan overruled previous Ninth Circuit authority holding that, if a discriminatory act was “related and similar to” acts that took place outside the limitations period, all the related acts — including the earlier acts — were actionable as part of a continuing violation, [citation] Morgan held that “discrete discriminatory acts are not actionable if time barred, even when they are related to acts alleged in timely filed charges.””
1 later decision 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.