Wilcher’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2020
5 district · 3 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Delaware v. Prouse · New Jersey v. T. L. O. · Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. · Griffin v. Wisconsin
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The firefighters claim that monitors looked at their genitalia as they urinated. SODAT and its employees, on the other hand, steadfastly maintain that they did not focus on the firefighters' genitalia during the urine collection process. Instead, they claim that they looked in the firefighters' general direction to ensure that no tampering was taking place during the production of the urine specimen. * * * In light of the nature of the testimony from the SODAT employees, which the trial judge chose to credit, we cannot say that the district court's finding was clearly erroneous. Consequently, we will adopt the district court's description of the SODAT procedure as one which entails only incidental observation of a firefighters' genitals .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ven though extensive regulation of an industry may diminish an employee’s expectation of privacy, we have never held that regulation alone is the sole factor that determines the scope of an employee’s expectation of privacy. It is also the safety concerns associated with a particular type of employment — especially those concerns that are well-known to prospective employees — which diminish an employee’s expectation of privacy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Like the district court, we find the defendants’ expert testimony persuasive. Cheating is a significant concern ... the incidences of cheating described by Dr. Closson are [not] impossible or even implausible ... the City of Wilmington need not wait for a cheating problem to develop in order to justify its use of direct observation.”
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.