Mahon v. Crowell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions

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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) a covered entity mistakenly believes that a person has a physical impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, or (2) a covered entity mistakenly believes that an actual, non-limiting impairment substantially limits one or more major life activities. In both cases, it is necessary that a covered entity entertain misperceptions about the individual — it must believe either that one has a substantially limiting impairment that one does not have or that one has a substantially limiting impairment when, in fact, the impairment is not so limiting.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 678 F. Supp. 2d 643 - Seil v. Keystone Automotive, Inc. · Pierson v. Norfolk Southern Corporation, Unpublished Decision (12-5-2003)

2. “(1) has “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities”; (2) has “a record of such an impairment”; or (3) has been “regarded as having such an impairment.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 442 F. Supp. 2d 438 - Torok v. Gibralter Veterinary Hospital, Inc. · 424 F. Supp. 2d 987 - Allen v. Deerfield Manufacturing Inc.

3. “impairment that only moderately or intermittently prevents an individual from performing major life activities is not a substantial limitation * * *.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hull v. Astro Shapes, Inc. · Maracz v. United Parcel Serv., Inc., Unpublished Decision (12-16-2004)