Southeastern Community College v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1,058 federal appellate · 514 district · 223 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,255 later decisions (68 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington (1979), Maine v. Thiboutot (1980)
1,058 federal appellate · 514 district · 223 state decisions — followed in 30 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDavis v. Southeastern Community College (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 706 · 29 U.S.C. § 775 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green · Moor v. County of Alameda
Cited together with School Board of Nassau County Florida v. H Arline · Alexander v. Choate · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Cannon v. University of Chicago · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green
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 3,255 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An otherwise qualified person is one who is able to meet all of a program's requirements in spite of his handicap.”
90 later decisions quote this exact passage“No otherwise qualified individual with a disability ... shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
58 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“otherwise qualified handicapped individual”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.