Kvorjak v. Maine’s Empirical Analysis
259 F.3d 48 · 2001
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 26 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Freadman v. Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance (2007), Hohider v. United Parcel Service, Inc. (2009)
15 federal appellate · 26 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
Relies on Board of Trustees of the University of Alabamas v. Patricia Garrett · Bultemeyer v. Fort Wayne Community Schools · Soileau v. Guilford of Maine, Inc. · Barnett v. U.S. Air, Inc. · Carr v. Reno 92-5115
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he law does not require an employer to accommodate a disability by foregoing an essential function of the position or by reallocating essential functions to make other workers' jobs more onerous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An `essential function' is a fundamental job duty of the position at issue . . . [it] does not include the marginal functions of the position.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The term does not include 'marginal' tasks, - 24 - but may encompass 'individual or idiosyncratic characteristics' of the job.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.