Davoll v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Jack Davoll, Hohider v. United Parcel Service, Inc. (2009)
2 federal appellate · 11 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 706 · 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 12112 (§ 102 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12117 (§ 107 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Bratton v. United States · Chandler v. City of Dallas · Jasany v. United States Postal Service · Louis P. Forrisi v. Otis R. Bowen · Bolton v. Scrivner, 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Former, present and future members of the Denver Police Department who have or will have disabilities; who have been or will be denied reasonable accommodation of their disabilities by defendants; who have been or will be retaliated against for assertion of ADA rights or opposition to discriminatory practices; who have been or will be aggrieved by defendants’ ongoing failure to implement the provisions of the ADA for Denver Police Officers; who have been or will be denied equal protection and due process of law through defendants' unequal implementation of the ADA in defendants' workforce and ongoing disparate treatment of police officers with disabilities and constructive discharge of police officers with disabilities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“" ... I)t is often necessary to analyze the substantive claims and defenses of the parties and the essential elements of those claims and defenses.... Nevertheless, there is a distinction between identifying the issues that the case will present for purposes of determining whether the requirements of Rule 23 have been met and deciding those issues on the merits."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... must first adequately define the class and then establish that it is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.