No. 98-2723’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2020
10 district ·
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
Relies on School Board of Nassau County Florida v. H Arline · Alexander v. Choate · Randolph v. Rodgers · Gorman v. Bartch · Pottgen v. Missouri State High School Activities Ass'n
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States ... shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) [he] is a qualified individual with a disability; (2)[he] was denied the benefits of a program or activity of a public entity receiving federal funds; and (3)[he] was discriminated against based on [his] disability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant to such a claim is entitled to assert as an affirmative defense that a requested accommodation would constitute an undue burden.”
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.