Lee v. Cook County’s Empirical Analysis
635 F.3d 969 · 2011
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership · Bowles v. Russell · Pace v. Superintendent State Correctional Institution at Graterford · Osterneck v. Ernst & Whinney · Lawrence v. Florida
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a federal civil action is severed, it is not dismissed. Instead, the clerk of court creates multiple docket numbers for the action already on file, and the severed claims proceed as if suits had been filed separately.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Misjoinder of parties is not a ground for dismissing an action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.