US Airways, Inc. v. Barnett’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
264 federal appellate · 182 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 984 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Devlin v. Scardelletti (2002), At&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion (2011)
264 federal appellate · 182 district · 80 state decisions — followed in 14 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
reviewedBarnett v. U.S. Air, Inc. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12111 (§ 101 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12112 (§ 102 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Screws v. United States · Bragdon v. Abbott · Trw Inc v. Adelaide Andrews · Charles Dowd Box Co. v. Courtney
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 984 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he ADA says that the term reasonable accommodation may include ... reassignment to a vacant position.”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage“(A) making existing facilities used by employees readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities; and (B) job restructuring, part-time or modified work schedules, reassignment to a vacant position, acquisition or modification of equipment or devices, appropriate adjustment or modifications of examinations, training materials or policies, the provision of qualified readers or interpreters, and other similar accommodations for individuals with disabilities.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“not making reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or employee, unless such covered entity can demonstrate that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the business of such covered entity”
7 later decisions 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.