Burch v. Coca-Cola Co.’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.3d 305 · 1997
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 12 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Colwell v. Suffolk County Police Department (1998), Sherrod v. American Airlines, Inc. (1998)
57 federal appellate · 12 district · 10 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. § 636 · 29 U.S.C. § 791 · 42 U.S.C. § 12102 (§ 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12111 (§ 101 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12112 (§ 102 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12114 (§ 104 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. · School Board of Nassau County Florida v. H Arline
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[tjhe ADA requires an individualized inquiry beyond the mere existence of a hospital stay. Although the Court in Arline noted that the plaintiffs hospitalization established a record of impairment, the defendant had conceded that her acute tuberculosis had been substantially limiting.... [The contrary reading of Arline] would work a presumption that any condition requiring temporary hospitalization is disabling — a presumption that runs counter to the very goal of the ADA.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i) unable to perform a major life activity that the average person in the general population can perform; or (ii) significantly restricted as to the condition, manner or duration under which an individual can perform a particular major life activity as compared to the condition, manner, or duration under which the average person in the general population can perform that same major life activity.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual; (B) a record of such an impairment; or (C) being regarded as having such an impairment.”
6 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.