Kelly v. City of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
4 F.3d 509 · 1993
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Rozar v. Dm Mullis (1996), Evans v. City of Chicago (2006)
30 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · Delaware State College v. Ricks · Harris v. McRae · Chardon v. Fernandez · Delaware v. New York
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the proper focus is on the time of the discriminatory act, not the point at which the consequences of the act become painful”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`when the plaintiff knows or should know that his or her constitutional rights have been violated.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The plaintiffs certainly could have filed a section 1983 suit on September 1, 1988, claiming their liquor license was revoked without due process.”
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.