Thompson v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
295 F.3d 890 · 2002
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 18 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably O'Guinn v. Lovelock Correctional Center (2007), A Helping Hand, LLC v. Baltimore County (2008)
24 federal appellate · 18 district · 6 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 Pennsylvania Department of Corrections v. Yeskey · John Armstrong v. Gray Davis, Governor of the State of California · Crawford v. Indiana Department of Corrections · Gates v. Rowland · Collings v. Longview Fibre Co.
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the plaintiff is an individual with a disability; (2) the plaintiff is otherwise qualified to participate in or receive the benefit of some public entity’s services, programs, or activities; (3) the plaintiff was either excluded from participation in or denied the benefits of the public entity’s services, programs, or activities, or was otherwise discriminated against by the public entity; and (4) such exclusion, denial of benefits, or discrimination was by reason of the plaintiffs disability.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(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 an impairment (as described in paragraph (3)).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[sjubjeet to the provisions of this subehap-ter, no qualified individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services, programs, or activities of a public entity, or be subjected to discrimination by any such entity.”
3 later decisions 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.