Sedor v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
42 F.3d 741 · 1994
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Cifra v. General Electric Co. (2001), Derek Tolbert v. Queens College the City University of New York Stuart Liebman Helen Smith Cairns Eric Gander (2001)
7 federal appellate · 4 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. § 636 · 29 U.S.C. § 701 (Employment Opportunities for Individuals With Disabilities Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 794
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · United States v. Yellow Cab Co. · Heilweil v. Mount Sinai Hospital · Doe v. New York University
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States, as defined in section 706(8) of this title, shall, solely by reason of her disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Financial assistance or under any program or activity conducted by any Executive agency or by the United States Postal Service. 15”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) that there was a ‘causal connection’ between that disability and the employment decision, see, e.g., Teahan v. Metro-North Commuter Railroad Co., 951 F.2d 511, 517 (2d Cir.1991), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 815 , 113 S.Ct. 54 , 121 L.Ed.2d 24 (1992), and (b) that the disability was the only cause of the decision, see, e.g., id. at 515-16.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the only cause of the discharge-triggering conduct.”
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.