Leisen v. City of Shelbyville’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.3d 805 · 1998
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2018
10 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 2601 (§ 2 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 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 Bragdon v. Abbott · Weiler v. Household Finance Corp. · Weigel v. Target Stores · Dalton v. Subaru-Isuzu Automotive, Inc. · Duda v. Board of Education of Franklin Park Public School District No. 84
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of his major life activities; 2. has a record of such an impairment; or 3. is being regarded as having such an impairment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]his record contains no evidence from which a reasonable factfinder could conclude that she was substantially limited in the life activity of working.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“functions such as caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working”
1 later decision 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.