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259 F.3d 48 · 2001

Citation profile

54
cited by 54 later decisions
1
states following
January 2025
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “[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
  2. “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
  3. “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.