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562 U.S. 134 · 2011

Citation profile

cited by 83 later decisions

cited 9 times by the Supreme Court

states following

January 2026

most recently cited

14 federal appellate · 8 district · 14 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 44 U.S.C. § 2111 (Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act) · 51 U.S.C. § 20112 · 5 U.S.C. § 3301 (Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998) · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Connick v. Myers · Roe v. Wade · Paul v. Davis

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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“In two cases decided more than 30 years ago, this Court referred broadly to a constitutional privacy 'interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters.' Whalen v. Roe , 429 U.S. 589 , 599-600, 97 S.Ct. 869 , 51 L.Ed.2d 64 (1977) ; Nixon v. Administrator of General Services , 433 U.S. 425 , 457, 97 S.Ct. 2777 , 53 L.Ed.2d 867 (1977).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Leiser v. Moore · U.S. Office of Pers. Mgmt. Data Sec. Breach Litig. v. Office of Pers. Mgmt.
“[t]he premise of our adversarial system is that appellate courts do not sit as self-directed boards of legal inquiry and research, but essentially as arbiters of legal questions presented and argued by the parties before them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Littell v. Hous. Indep. Sch. Dist. · U.S. v. Johnson
“assume[d], without deciding, that the Constitution protects a privacy right”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Tschida v. Motl · U.S. Office of Pers. Mgmt. Data Sec. Breach Litig. v. Office of Pers. Mgmt.

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.