Carter v. Tisch’s Empirical Analysis
822 F.2d 465 · 1987
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably US Airways, Inc. v. Barnett (2002), Adriani v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities (1991)
29 federal appellate · 9 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 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 5 U.S.C. § 7702
Relies on School Board of Nassau County Florida v. H Arline · Jasany v. United States Postal Service · United States ex rel. Eichenlaub v. Shaughnessy · Doe v. Hampton
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Employers have an affirmative obligation to make a reasonable accommodation for a handicapped employee. Although they are not required to find another job for an employee who is not qualified for the job he or she was doing, they cannot deny an employee alternative employment opportunities reasonably available under the employer’s existing policies.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Consequently, we ... conclude that the postal service was not required to accommodate plaintiff further by placing him in a different position since to do so would violate the rights of other employees under the collective bargaining agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f a handicapped employee cannot do his job, he can be fired, and the employer is not required to assign him to alternative employment.”
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.