Lewis v. City of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
560 U.S. 205 · 2010
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 42 district · 12 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. · Delaware State College v. Ricks · Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans
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 213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not our task to assess the consequences of each approach and adopt the one that produces the least mischief. Our charge is to give effect to the law Congress enacted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not for us to rewrite the statute ... to achieve what we think Congress really intended.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An unlawful employment practice based on disparate impact is established ... only if ... a complaining party demonstrates that a respondent uses a particular employment practice that causes a disparate impact on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and the respondent fails to demonstrate that the challenged practice is job related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity[.]”
3 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.