Sheets v. Salt Lake County’s Empirical Analysis
45 F.3d 1383 · 1995
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 17 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably 40 Cal. 4th 683 - Taus v. Loftus (2007), Mitchell v. Maynard (1996)
65 federal appellate · 17 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Whalen v. Roe · Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'made a clear error of judgment or exceeded the bounds of permissible choice in the circumstances,'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'absent an award so excessive or inadequate as to shock the judicial conscience and to raise an irresistible inference that passion, prejudice, corruption or other improper cause invaded the trial, the jury's determination of the fact is considered inviolate.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f an individual has a legitimate expectation of confidentiality, then `[d]isclosure of such information must advance a compelling state interest which, in addition, must be accomplished in the least intrusive manner.'”
2 later decisions 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.