Heintzelman v. Runyon’s Empirical Analysis
120 F.3d 143 · 1997
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 706 · 42 U.S.C. § 12102 (§ 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on Aucutt v. Six Flags Over Mid-America, Inc. · McDonald v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Polk Center · Evans v. City of Dallas · Allison v. Department of Corrections · Wood v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutory disability requires permanent or long-term limitations,”
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.