Smith v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.3d 286 · 1999
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Cockrel v. Shelby County School District (2001), Lewis v. B & R CORPORATION (2001)
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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. § 12188 (§ 308 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000A · 45 U.S.C. § 1
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins · Robinson v. Kroger Co. · Alterman Foods, Inc. v. Ligon
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“draw our own inferences and legal conclusions from the record.”
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.