Reynolds v. Brock’s Empirical Analysis
815 F.2d 571 · 1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Cook v. State of Rhode Island Department of Mental Health Retardation and Hospitals (1993), Sherman v. State (1995)
17 federal appellate · 6 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 29 U.S.C. § 701 (Employment Opportunities for Individuals With Disabilities Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 706 · 29 U.S.C. § 794
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“then the burden of producing evidence shifts to the defendant who must demonstrate a legitimate nondiscriminatory reason for terminating”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“otherwise qualified handicapped individual”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Epileptics are ineligible for "hazardous” jobs in the federal civil service unless they have been seizure-free without medication for two years ... The military will not consider applications from epileptics until they have been seizure-free without medication for five years. Many states render epileptics ineligible for driver’s licenses unless they have been seizure-free for a specified period of time ... Unable to drive to work, many epileptics have severely limited job opportunities. The unemployment rate among fully employable epileptics is more that two times the national average. The underemployment rate for epileptics is perhaps still higher ...”
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.