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943 F.2d 157 · 1991

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
2
states following
October 2014
most recently cited

14 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Tate v. Farmland Industries, Inc. (2001), J.L. v. Social Security Administration (1992)

14 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions

220199120002010decided

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. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 702 · 5 U.S.C. § 706

Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Heckler v. Chaney · School Board of Nassau County Florida v. H Arline · Webster v. Doe

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “prevent us from reviewing other claims of illegality--such as a claim that the Department's [action], say, rested on unconstitutional racial discrimination, or ... violated the Rehabilitation Act”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “a person is physically qualified to drive a motor vehicle if that person ... [h]as no established medical history or clinical diagnosis of epilepsy”). . Their differing estimates create no genuine dispute of material fact. Even under plaintiff's low estimate, the use of a forklift was required to perform the .essential functions of the warehouse job. . Ohio state courts have similarly held that”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “We doubt that . . . the Department [of Transportation] could not adopt reasonable rules concerning the relationship between certain handicaps . . . and certain activities like driving.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.