No. 02-55721’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
15 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably 140 Cal. App. 4th 34 - Gelfo v. Lockheed Martin Corporation (2006), 373 F. Supp. 2d 1034 - Diaz v. Federal Express Corp. (2005)
15 district · 1 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 Smith v. Midland Brake, Inc. · Bradley v. Harcourt, Brace & Co. · Weigel v. Target Stores · Carolyn Humphrey v. Memorial Hospitals Association · 74 Cal. App. 4th 215 - Hanson v. Lucky Stores, Inc.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) he is a disabled person within the meaning of the ADA; (2) he is qualified, that is, he is able to perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation; and (3) he suffered an adverse employment action because of his disability.”
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.