Hilton v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
673 F.3d 120 · 2012
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 705 · 42 U.S.C. § 12102 (§ 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12132 (§ 202 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Pearson v. Callahan · Duncan v. Walker
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n individual meets the requirement of "being regarded as having such an impairment” [under the ADA] if the individual establishes that he or she has been subjected to an action prohibited under this chapter because of an actual or perceived physical or mental impairment whether or not the impairment limits or is perceived to limit a major life activity.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only required to raise a genuine issue of material fact about whether [the defendants] regarded him as having a mental or physical impairment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not required to present evidence of how or to what degree they believed the impairment affected him.”
2 later decisions 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.