Pryor v. Trane Co.’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.3d 1024 · 1998
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Pegram v. Honeywell, Inc. (2004), Brady v. Fort Bend County (1998)
22 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
Relies on Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. · Fulbright v. United States · Aucutt v. Six Flags Over Mid-America, Inc. · Dutcher v. Ingalls Shipbuilding · Thompson Co Inc v. Partridge M C
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(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 the same major life activity.”
5 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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the evidence points 'so strongly and overwhelmingly in favor of one party that the court believes that reasonable men could not arrive at a contrary [conclusion].'”
4 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.