Lucas v. Chicago Transit Authority’s Empirical Analysis
367 F.3d 714 · 2004
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Humphries v. CBOCS West, Inc. (2007), Brewer v. Board of Trustees of the University (2007)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan · Delaware State College v. Ricks · Chardon v. Fernandez
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conclusory statements, not grounded in specific facts, are not sufficient to avoid summary judgment.” Lucas v. Chicago Transit Authority, 367 F.3d 714, 726 (7th Cir.2004) (plaintiff failed to provide”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Provided that an act contributing to the claim occurs within the filing period, the entire time period of the hostile environment may be considered for the purposes of determining liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. City of Chi.“As we have explained, `[a]n employer's refusal to undo a discriminatory decision is not a fresh act of discrimination.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Potter
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.