Calvi v. Knox County’s Empirical Analysis
470 F.3d 422 · 2006
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 93 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Dávila v. Corporación de Puerto Rico para la Difusión Pública (2007), Borges v. Serrano-Isern (2010)
31 federal appellate · 93 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Conley v. Gibson · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Graham v. Connor · City of Canton v. Harris
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are designed to function as a means of 'focusing a district court's attention on what is-and what is not-genuinely controverted.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] party opposing a motion for summary judgment shall submit with its opposition a separate, short, and concise statement of material facts.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not entitled to raise new and unadvertised theories of liability for the first time in opposition to a motion for summary judgment.”
4 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.