Onishea v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
126 F.3d 1323 · 1997
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2019
7 federal appellate ·
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 Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Turner v. Safley · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“elimination of high risk behavior is impossible.... Because the Defendant/Prison system has decided that such conduct is likely, and because of the catastrophic severity of the consequences if such conduct does occur, this Court holds that integrating the [program under discussion] would present a significant risk of transmitting the deadly HIV virus. Accordingly, the HIV+ inmates are not 'otherwise qualified.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the significance of a risk is a product of the odds that transmission will occur and the severity of the consequences,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Webster's Third International Dictionary 2116 (1986). It does not just mean”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.