Lightbourn’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
16 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Pigford v. Glickman (1998), Livengood Feeds, Inc. v. Kgaa (2002)
16 district · 5 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
Relies on Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Perrin v. United States · Messerschmidt v. United States · Johnson v. Johnson
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he test for typicality is not demanding. It focuses on the similarity between the named plaintiffs’ legal and remedial theories and the theories of those whom they purport to represent. Typicality does not require a complete identity of claims. Rather, the critical inquiry is whether the class representative’s claims have the same essential characteristics of those of the putative class. If the claims arise from a similar course of conduct and share the same legal theory, factual differences will not defeat typicality.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that to state a § 504 claim against a state actor a plaintiff must allege that the specific program or activity with which he or she was involved receives or directly benefits from federal financial assistance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that they are qualified individuals within the meaning of”
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.