Dotson v. United States Postal Service’s Empirical Analysis
977 F.2d 976 · 1992
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Mardell v. Harleysville Life Insurance (1994), United States v. Midwest Specialties, Inc. (1998)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Street v. Jc Bradford & Company · Canderm Pharmacal, Ltd. v. Elder Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. University of Detroit
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even though plaintiff's failure to complete the application truthfully was discovered post-termination, he is not entitled to handicap discrimination relief when he was not initially qualified for the position.”
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.