Francis D. Gillard v. Harold F. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
579 F.2d 825 · 1978
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013 · most notably O'CONNOR v. Ortega (1987), Black v. Stephens (1981)
18 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Paul v. Davis · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a [school] guidance counselor, charged with maintaining sensitive student records, in the absence of an accepted practice or regulation to the contrary, enjoys a reasonable expectation of privacy in his school desk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable expectation of freedom from governmental intrusion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Lewis
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.