Nilson v. Layton City’s Empirical Analysis
45 F.3d 369 · 1995
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Doe v. Poritz (1995), Nicholas v. Pennsylvania State University (2000)
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Paul v. Davis · Whalen v. Roe · Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]xpectations of privacy are legitimate if the information which the state possesses is highly personal or intimate”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he disclosed information itself must warrant constitutional protection.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Nunez v. Pachman · Boling v. Romer“Criminal activity is ... not protected by the right to privacy.”
4 later decisions 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.