Malabarba v. Chicago Tribune Co.’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.3d 690 · 1998
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Smith v. Midland Brake, Inc. (1999), Barnett v. U.S. Air, Inc. (2000)
20 federal appellate · 3 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Waldridge v. American Hoechst Corp. · Gile v. United Airlines, Inc. · Nlfc Incorporated v. Devcom Mid-America Incorporated · Daugherty v. City of El Paso
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affirmative action in favor of individuals with disabilities, in the sense of requiring that disabled persons be given priority in hiring or reassignment over those who are not disabled.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he ADA does not require that employers transform temporary work assignments into permanent positions.”
2 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.