Melendez v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.’s Empirical Analysis
79 F.3d 661 · 1996
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Association of Mexican-American Educators v. California (2000), Salgado ex rel. Salgado v. General Motors Corp. (1998)
37 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Allen v. Wright · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio · Connecticut v. Teal
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“proportionate to the circumstances surrounding a party's failure to comply with discovery rules.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““... this challenge raises concerns broader then the establishment of a pri-ma facie case. In order for an individual plaintiff to have constitutional standing to bring a Title VII action, he must show that he was personally injured by the defendant’s alleged discrimination and that his injury will likely be addressed by the requested relief.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To prevail under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 , a plaintiff ultimately must prove that he has been a victim of intentional discrimination.”
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.