Watson v. Lighting’s Empirical Analysis
304 F.3d 749 · 2002
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams · Schiavone v. Fortune · Hendricks-Robinson v. Excel Corp. · Eisenstadt v. Centel Corp. · Bobbi Miller v. Illinois Department of Corrections
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the ADA does not require an employer that sets aside a pool of positions for recovering employees to make those positions available indefinitely to an employee whose recovery has run its course without restoring that worker to her original healthy state. A person is “otherwise qualified” within the meaning of the ADA only if she can perform one of the regular jobs (with or without an accommodation).”
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.