Gardner v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 1271 · 1985
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Taylor, Carolyn v. Small, Lawrence M. (2003), Barth v. Gelb (1993)
48 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 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. § 636 · 29 U.S.C. § 701 (Employment Opportunities for Individuals With Disabilities Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 791 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 29 U.S.C. § 794A · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · Southeastern Community College v. Davis · Inwood Laboratories, Inc. v. Ives Laboratories, Inc. · Hullum v. United States
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'perform the essential functions of the position in question without endangering the health and safety of [himself] or others.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States, as defined in section 706(7) of this title, shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any other program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance or under any program or activity conducted by any Executive agency or by the United States Postal Service____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, the 1978 amendment to § 504, 29 U.S.C. § 794 , extended the Act’s prohibition against handicap employment discrimination to include the employment activities of the federal government_ Section 501(b), 29 U.S.C. § 791 (b), requires the federal government as an employer to develop and implement affirmative action plans on behalf of handicapped employees.”
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.