Wright v. Compusa, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.3d 472 · 2003
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 65 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (2005), Ahern v. Shinseki (2010)
26 federal appellate · 65 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. § 12203 (§ 503 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams · Mesnick v. General Electric Co. · Albertsons Inc v. Hallie Kirkingburg · Carroll v. Xerox Corp. · Soileau v. Guilford of Maine, 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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]hronological proximity does not by itself establish causality, particularly if `[t]he larger picture undercuts any claim of causation.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he larger picture undercuts any claim of causation”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i) Unable to perform a major life activity that the average person in the general population can perform; or (ii) Significantly restricted as to the condition, manner, or duration under which an individual can perform a major life activity as compared to the condition, manner, or duration under which the average person in the general population can perform that same major life activity-”
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.