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Delapaz v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis

634 F.3d 895 · 2011

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
February 2025
most recently cited

9 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Waldridge v. American Hoechst Corp. · Vance v. Peters · Gunville v. Walker · Caldwell v. City of Elwood

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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “is designed, in part, to aid the district court, which does not have the advantage of the parties’ familiarity with the record and often cannot afford to spend the time combing the record to locate the relevant information, in determining whether a trial is necessary.” Delapaz v. Richardson, 634 F.3d 895, 899 (7th Cir. 2011) (internal citation and quotation marks omitted). Local Rule 56.1(a) requires the moving party to provide”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “a response to each numbered paragraph in the moving party's statement, including, in the case of any disagreement, specific references to the affidavits, parts of the record, and other supporting materials relied upon.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “conjecture alone cannot defeat a summary judgment motion”
    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.