Shiring v. Runyon’s Empirical Analysis
90 F.3d 827 · 1996
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 13 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Fowler v. UPMC Shadyside (2009), Taylor v. Phoenixville School District (1999)
51 federal appellate · 13 district · 8 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 School Board of Nassau County Florida v. H Arline · United States ex rel. Eichenlaub v. Shaughnessy · Buckingham v. United States · McDonald v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Polk Center
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that he or she has a disability; (2) that he or she is otherwise qualified to perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations by the employer; and (3) that he or she was nonetheless terminated or otherwise prevented from performing the job.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“demonstrate that there were vacant, funded positions whose essential duties he was capable of performing, with or without reasonable accommodation, and that these positions were at an equivalent level or position as [his former job].”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 01-3212 · Mengine v. Runyon“`it falls to the employee to make at least a facial showing' that there were vacant, funded positions whose essential functions he was capable of performing.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 01-3212 · Mengine v. Runyon
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.