982 F. Supp. 932 - Rivera v. Heyman’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2013
6 federal appellate ·
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 20 U.S.C. § 41 (National Museum Act of 1966) · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679 · 29 U.S.C. § 701 (Employment Opportunities for Individuals With Disabilities Act)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Brown v. General Services Administration · Thompson v. Thompson · Westfall v. Erwin · Brass v. American Film Technologies, Inc.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o otherwise qualified individual with a disability ... shall, solely by reason of his or her disability ... be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance or under any program or activity conducted by any Executive agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rivera v. Heyman“the Executive does not have the control over the Smithsonian necessary to classify the Institution as 'in the executive branch.' " Id. at 939. On this appeal, Rivera made a number of arguments as to why the Smithsonian is "in the executive branch”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rivera v. Heyman“appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rivera v. Heyman
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.