McWright v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 222 · 1992
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Roth v. Lutheran General Hospital (1995), Buckingham v. United States (1993)
24 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 501 · 29 U.S.C. § 701 (Employment Opportunities for Individuals With Disabilities Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 791 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 29 U.S.C. § 794A
Relies on Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Southeastern Community College v. Davis · School Board of Nassau County Florida v. H Arline · Alexander v. Choate
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agency shall make reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified handicapped applicant or employee unless the agency can demonstrate that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of its program.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Rehabilitation Act calls for reasonable accommodations that permit handicapped individuals to lead normal lives, not merely accommodations that facilitate the performance of specific employment tasks.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sec. 504 applies to employment discrimination suits against federal agencies.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Runyon · Tyler 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.