335 F. Supp. 2d 1022 - Velez v. Roche’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981A · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Faragher v. City of Boca Raton · Schwapp v. Town of Avon · U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. AIC Security Investigations, Ltd. · Ellison v. Brady · William J. Ray v. William J. Henderson, Postmaster General
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the nonsettling defendant must demonstrate that the settlement and award (against which the offset is sought) were for the same injury.... Second, the injury must be indivisible such that there is joint and several liability among the settling and nonsettling defendants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.