Foster v. DeLuca’s Empirical Analysis
545 F.3d 582 · 2008
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Bausch v. Stryker Corp. (2010), Runnion ex rel. Rsunnion v. Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago (2015)
19 federal appellate · 1 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 Foman v. Davis · Car Carriers, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co. · Perkins v. Silverstein · Airborne Beepers & Video, Inc. v. AT & T Mobility LLC · Dickerson v. Board of Education of Ford Heights
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[rjelief under Rules 59(e) and 60(b) are extraordinary remedies reserved for the exceptional case,' and “the mere desire to expand allegations of a dismissed complaint does not, by itself, normally merit lifting the’ judgment.” Yet the district court left the plaintiff with little recourse ... because it simultaneously granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss and terminated the case.”
2 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.