McDonnell v. Cournia’s Empirical Analysis
990 F.2d 963 · 1993
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Payne v. Pauley (2003), Nlfc Incorporated v. Devcom Mid-America Incorporated (1995)
28 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the plaintiff must show that the law was clearly established when the challenged' conduct occurred. In this Circuit, we ask “whether the law was clear in relation to the specific facts confronting the public official when he or she acted.” Apostol v. Landau, 957 F.2d 339, 341 (7th Cir.1992). Second, we evaluate the objective legal reasonableness of the defendants’ conduct. We inquire whether reasonably competent officials would agree on the ap plication of the clearly established right to a given set of facts, (citations omitted).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Self- serving assertions without factual support in the record will not defeat a motion for summary judgment.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“I[f] the factual context renders the claims asserted by the party opposing summary judgment implausible, the party must 'come forward with more persuasive evidence to support their claim than would otherwise be necessary.'”
1 later decision 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.