Dalton v. Subaru-Isuzu Automotive, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
141 F.3d 667 · 1998
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Aka v. Washington Hospital Center (1998), Smith v. Midland Brake, Inc. (1999)
67 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 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)
Relies on Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison · Alaska v. United States · Barakat v. Life Insurance · Beck v. University of Wisconsin Board of Regents · Bombard v. Fort Wayne Newspapers, Inc.
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e have been unable to find a single ADA or Rehabilitation Act case in which an employer has been required to reassign a disabled employee to a position when such a transfer would violate a legitimate, nondiscriminatory policy of the employer, and for good reason. The contrary rule would convert a nondiscrimination statute into a mandatory preference statute, a result which would be both inconsistent with the nondiscriminatory aims of the ADA and an unreasonable imposition on the employers and coworkers of disabled employees.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[n]othing in the ADA requires an employer to abandon its legitimate, nondiscriminatory company policies defining job qualifications, prerequisites, and entitlements to intra-company transfers.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“identify the full range of alternative positions for which the individual satisfies the employer's legitimate, nondiscriminatory prerequisites.”
6 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.