United States v. Southern Management Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
955 F.2d 914 · 1992
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Ennis v. National Association of Business and Educational Radio Incorporated (1995), Byrne v. Board of Education (1992)
25 federal appellate · 10 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · School Board of Nassau County Florida v. H Arline · James B. Beam Distilling Co. v. Georgia · United States ex rel. Eichenlaub v. Shaughnessy · United States v. Estate of Donnelly
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Handicap” means, with respect to a person— (1) a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such person's major life activities; (2) a record of having such an impairment, or (3) being regarded as having such an impairment, but such term does not include current, illegal use of or addiction to a controlled substance (as defined in section 802 of Title 21).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“term 'qualified individual with a disability' shall not include any employee or applicant who is currently engaging in the illegal use of drugs,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the words [of a statute] convey a clear meaning, courts may not sift through secondary indices of intent to discover alternative meanings.”
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.