Weyer v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
198 F.3d 1104 · 2000
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 15 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Access Now, Inc. v. Southwest Airlines Co. (2004), Association of Mexican-American Educators v. California (2000)
37 federal appellate · 15 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
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · Southeastern Community College v. Davis · Alexander v. Choate
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] public accommodation shall take those steps that may be necessary to ensure that no individual with a disability is excluded, denied services, segregated or otherwise treated differently than other individuals because of the absence of auxiliary aids and services, unless the public accommodation can demonstrate that taking those steps would fundamentally alter the nature of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations being offered or would result in an undue burden, i.e., significant difficulty or expense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[legislation often results from a delicate compromise among competing interests and concerns. If we were to “fully effectuate” what we take to be the underlying policy of the legislation, without careful attention to the qualifying words in the statute, then we would be overturning the nuanced compromise in the legislation, and substituting our own cruder, less responsive mandate for the law that was actually passed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an individual with a disability who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the employment position that such individual holds or desires”
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.