Ray v. Glidden Co.’s Empirical Analysis
85 F.3d 227 · 1996
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 14 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Sherrod v. American Airlines, Inc. (1998), Gillen v. Fallon Ambulance Service, Inc. (2002)
30 federal appellate · 14 district · 3 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
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Dutcher v. Ingalls Shipbuilding
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]nability to perform heavy lifting does not render a person substantially limited in the major activities of lifting or working.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantially limited in a major life activity”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) Has a physical or mental impairment that does not substantially limit major life activities but is treated by a covered entity as constituting such limitation; (2) Has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits major life activities only as a result of the attitudes of others toward such impairment; or (3) Has none of the impairments defined in paragraphs (h)(1) or (2) of [§ 1630.2] but is treated by a covered entity as having a substantially limiting impairment. 6”
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.