Doe v. Pfrommer’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.3d 73 · 1998
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 19 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Harris v. Mills (2009), Weixel v. Board of Education (2002)
34 federal appellate · 19 district · 4 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 Heck v. Humphrey · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. · Southeastern Community College v. Davis · Alexander v. Choate
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not illegal discrimination against the disabled, but the substance of the services provided.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“meet[] the essential eligibility requirements for the receipt”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o otherwise qualified individual with a disability ... shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance ...”
3 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.