Cummings v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
393 F.3d 1186 · 2005
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Fogle v. Pierson (2006), Carpenter v. Boeing Co. (2006)
25 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 29 U.S.C. § 794
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Brady v. State of Maryland · Singleton v. Wulff · Gordon v. United States · Lyons v. Jefferson Bank & Trust
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“general rule that issues not raised below are waived on appeal”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because the language of disability used in the ADA mirrors that in the Rehabilitation Act, we look to cases construing the Rehabilitation Act for guidance when faced with an ADA challenge, and vice versa.”) (quotations and citations omitted); Myers v. Hose, 50 F.3d 278, 281 (4th Cir. 1995) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.