Nelson v. Thornburgh’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Borkowski v. Valley Central School District (1995), Nathanson v. Medical College of Pennsylvania (1991)
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
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. § 1331 · 29 U.S.C. § 775 · 29 U.S.C. § 794
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Bell v. Hood · Quern v. Jordan · Hutto v. Finney · Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The overall size of the recipient's program with respect to the number of employees, number and type of facilities, and size of budget; (2) The type of the recipient’s operation, including the composition and structure of the recipient’s workforce; and (3) The nature and cost of the accommodation needed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“demonstrate that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“acquisition or modification of equipment or devices,”
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.