Townsend v. Quasim’s Empirical Analysis
328 F.3d 511 · 2003
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Buchanan ex rel. Estate of Buchanan v. Maine (2006), Pashby v. Delia (2013)
21 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12102 (§ 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12132 (§ 202 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396 (§ 1900 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396A (§ 1902 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396D (§ 1905 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396N (§ 1915 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Harris v. McRae · School Board of Nassau County Florida v. H Arline · Alexander v. Choate · Trw Inc v. Adelaide Andrews
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“modifications [that] would fundamentally alter the nature of the service, program, or activity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he section of Justice Ginsburg's opinion discussing the state's fundamental alteration defense commanded only four votes ... [b]ecause it relied on narrower grounds than did Justice Stevens' concurrence or Justice Kennedy's concurrence, both of which reached the same result, Justice Ginsburg's opinion controls.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ne basis for finding a `fundamental alteration’ would have been for the [S]tate to demonstrate that the remedy would force it `to apply for additional Medicaid waivers in order to provide community-based services’”
2 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.