Hansen v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
233 F.3d 521 · 2000
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (2005), Basith v. Cook County (2001)
16 federal appellate · 1 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 29 U.S.C. § 701 (Employment Opportunities for Individuals With Disabilities Act)
Relies on Taylor v. Phoenixville School District · Wooten v. Farmland Foods · Gile v. United Airlines, Inc. · Smith v. Midland Brake, Inc. · Fjellestad v. Pizza Hut of America, Inc.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ailure to engage in this 'interactive process' cannot give rise to a claim for relief ... if the employer can show that no reasonable accommodation was possible.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“manufacture a job that -will enable. the disabled worker to work,despite his disability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the job that Hansen would like would be a job in which another worker does the sorting, then gives Hansen the mail to case, and then when Hansen has done that carries the cases to the truck, and Hansen then makes just curbside deliveries.... Two new jobs would have to be manufactured, one for Hansen and one for his helper. The Act does not require that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mays v. Principi
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.