Gotkin v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
514 F.2d 125 · 1975
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2009
11 federal appellate · 1 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Arnett v. Kennedy · Wisconsin v. Constantineau · United States v. Causby
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Property interests, of course, are not created by the Constitution. Rather, they are created and their dimensions are defined by existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law — rules or understandings that secure certain benefits and that support claims of entitlement to those benefits.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no basis for the proposition that mental patients have a constitutionally protected property interest in the direct and unrestricted access to their [psychiatric] records”), and although the Second Circuit has recognized a”
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.