545 F. Supp. 576 - Doe v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2014
1 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 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 5 U.S.C. § 8902 · 5 U.S.C. § 8904
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney · United States v. Carolene Products Co. · General Electric Co. v. Gilbert
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 8 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 ... 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 or under any program or activity conducted by an Executive agency or by the United States Postal Service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The ... interpretation urged by the plaintiffs, that provision of a benefit to ameliorate one harm triggers the requirement to furnish equal benefits to all handicapped persons, is neither sensible nor supported by the legislative history of section 504.”). Cf. Doe v. Devine, 703 F.2d 1319, 1327 (D.C.Cir. 1983) (Under FEBHA,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in sufficient detail, the various considerations underlying OPM's decision to accept [Blue Cross-Blue Shield's] proposal. Those considerations included all the policy goals which are discernible in the FEHBA, including those embodied in section 8904.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Devine
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.