Ala v. West Valley City’s Empirical Analysis
26 F.3d 989 · 1994
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2026
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Mares v. ConAgra Poultry Co. · Bill Ewing and Bill Ewing Service Center, Inc. v. Amoco Oil Company, Bill Ewing and Bill Ewing Service Center, Inc. v. Mobil Oil Corporation and Amoco Oil Company · Weir v. Anaconda Co. · Lankford v. City of Hobart
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.
“There is no dispute that confidential medical information is entitled to constitutional privacy protection.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“entirely irrelevant to whether he has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the results.”
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.