Hoffman v. Caterpillar, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
256 F.3d 568 · 2001
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Rogers v. City of Chicago (2003), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (2005)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12102 (§ 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12111 (§ 101 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12112 (§ 102 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Crady v. Liberty National Bank & Trust Co. · U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. AIC Security Investigations, Ltd.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such individual; (B) a record of such an impairment; or (C) being regarded as having such and impairment (as described in paragraph (3)).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a qualified individual with a disability”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the ADA [does not] mandate that Caterpillar must tolerate a drop in productivity in order to allow Hoffman to run the high-speed scanner.” 256 F.3d at 573 . At trial Hoffman not only needed to prove that she was both”
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.