Beck v. University of Wisconsin Board of Regents’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.3d 1130 · 1996
Citation profile
131 federal appellate · 37 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 335 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Calero-Cerezo v. United States Department of Justice (2004), Taylor v. Phoenixville School District (1999)
131 federal appellate · 37 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Applies 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)
Relies on Hedberg v. Indiana Bell Telephone Co. · Vande Zande v. State of Wisconsin Department of Administration R · Grenier v. Cyanamid Plastics, Inc. · Siefken v. Village of Arlington Heights
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 335 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party that obstructs or delays the interactive process is not acting in good faith. A party that fails to communicate, by way of initiation or response, may also be acting in bad faith.”
43 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o determine the appropriate reasonable accommodation it may be necessary for the [employer] to initiate an informal, interactive process with the qualified individual with a disability in need of the accommodation.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n employee has the initial duty to inform the employer of a disability before ADA liability may be triggered for failure to provide accommodations.”
10 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.