Talk v. Delta Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
165 F.3d 1021 · 1999
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Pegram v. Honeywell, Inc. (2004), Gregory Moore v. Jb Hunt Transport Inc Jb Hunt Driver Training Center (2000)
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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. § 12112 (§ 102 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on Chandler v. City of Dallas · Kelly v. Drexel University · Dutcher v. Ingalls Shipbuilding · Rogers v. International Marine Terminals, Inc. · Allustiarte v. Cooper
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual; (B) a record of such an impairment; or (C) being regarded as having such an impairment.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i) Unable to perform a major life activity that the average person in the general population can perform; or (ii) Significantly restricted as to the condition, manner or duration under which an individual can perform a particular major life activity as compared to the condition, manner, or duration under which the average person in the general population can perform the same major life activity.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inability to perform a single, particular job does not constitute a substantial limitation in the major life activity of working,”
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.