Patton v. TIC United Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 1235 · 1996
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 18 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Lee v. Edwards (1996), Kimber v. Thiokol Corp. (1999)
42 federal appellate · 18 district · 7 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 42 U.S.C. § 12131 (§ 201 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12132 (§ 202 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Salve Regina College v. Russell · Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · Bouie v. City of Columbia
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A facially neutral governmental restriction does not deny `meaningful access' to the disabled simply because disabled persons are more likely to be affected by it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To the extent feasible, we look to decisions construing the Rehabilitation Act to assist us in interpreting analogous provisions of the ADA.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no qualified individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services, programs, or activities of a public entity, or be subjected to discrimination by any such entity.”
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.