Amos’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 district · 1 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The ADA, unlike RFRA, is not attempting to impose a strict scrutiny standard on all state laws or actions in the absence of evidence of discrimination. ... Rather, the ADA seeks to impose a scheme that will adequately prevent or remedy a well-documented problem of discrimination without unduly burdening the [state]. It subjects some laws and official actions to a [reasonable accommodation’ requirement only to the point that the accommodation is not unduly, burdensome. Such a scheme, unlike RFRA, does not redefine or expand [disabled persons’] constitutional protections, but simply proportionally acts to remedy and prevent documented constitutional wrongs.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. Utah State Tax Commission

2. “‘absurd to apply the Americans with Disabilities Act [and the Rehabilitation Act] to prisoners. Prisoners are not a favored group in society; the propensity of some of them to sue at the drop of a hat is well known; prison systems are strapped for funds; the practical effect of granting disabled prisoners rights of access that might require costly modifications of prison facilities might be the curtailment of educational, recreational, and rehabilitative programs for prisoners, in which event everyone might be worse off....'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 267 F. Supp. 2d 514 - Bane v. Virginia Department of Corrections

3. “[l]egislation which deters or remedies constitutional violations can fall within the sweep of Congress's enforcement power [under § 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment]even if in the process it prohibits conduct which is not itself unconstitutional and intrudes into'legislative spheres of autonomy previously reserved to the States.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Christopher Alsbrook