substantially limits
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 527 U.S. 471 - Karen Sutton Kimberly Hintons v. United Air Lines Inc · 1999Most cited · 4,163 citing opinions
among other things, "[u]nable to perform a major life activity that the average person in the general population can perform;" or "[s]ignificantly restricted as to the condition, manner or duration under which an individual can perform a particular major life activity as compared to the condition, manner, or duration under which the average person in the general population can perform that same major life activity." §1630.2(j).
How often courts cite the case defining “substantially limits”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “substantially limits” — 4,152 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.