Flight v. Gloeckler’s Empirical Analysis
68 F.3d 61 · 1995
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Henrietta v. Bloomberg (2003), Regional Economic Community Action Program, Inc. v. City of Middletown (2002)
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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 29 U.S.C. § 706 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 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))
Relies on Doe v. New York University · Pc v. McLaughlin a a · P.C. v. McLaughlin · Marshall v. Switzer
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that he has a disability for purposes of the Rehabilitation Act, (2) that he is ‘otherwise qualified’ for the benefit that has been denied, (3) that he has been ‘denied the benefits’ solely by reason of his disability, and (4) that the benefit is part of a ‘program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.’”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“challenges to the allocation of resources among the disabled under the Rehabilitation Act are disfavored”
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.