State v. Polashek’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
50 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on Pellerin v. Veterans Administration of U.S. Government · Pilon v. United States Department of Justice · State v. Perez · Sullivan v. United States Postal Service · State v. Polashek
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a word is not defined in the statute, our next recourse has normally been to use a recognized dictionary to determine the common and ordinary meaning of the word.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Webster's Third New International Dictionary 22 (unabr. ed. 1993). Black's defines”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the recipient must have been previously unaware of the information at the time of the communication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.