Morisky v. Broward County’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.3d 445 · 1996
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Monette v. Electronic Data Systems Corp. (1996), Kocsis v. Multi-Care Management, Inc. (1996)
41 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 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. § 12112 (§ 102 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Brady v. Southern Railway Co. · Tyndall v. National Education Centers, Inc. · Hedberg v. Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n employer cannot be liable under the ADA for firing an employee when it indisputably had no knowledge of the disability. ... At the most basic level, it is intuitively clear when viewing the ADA’s language in a straightforward manner than an employer cannot fire an employee “because of’ a disability unless it knows of the disability. If it does not know of the disability, the employer is firing the employee “because of’ some other reason.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a qualified individual with a disability because of the disability of such individual”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indeed the ADA imposes upon employers the duty to provide reasonable accommodations for known disabilities unless doing so would result in undue hardship upon the employer.”
3 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.