Devito v. Chicago Park District’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.3d 878 · 1996
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2018
6 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12111 (§ 101 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Kentucky v. Graham · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Butz v. Economou · Delaware State College v. Ricks
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only immunities available in an official capacity suit are those that may be asserted by the governmental entity itself ( e.g. , Eleventh Amendment immunity or sovereign immunity).”
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.