Wolfe v. Schaefer’s Empirical Analysis
619 F.3d 782 · 2010
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Buckley v. Valeo · Paul v. Davis · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Collins v. City of Harker Heights
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he courts of appeals, including this court, have interpreted Whalen to recognize a constitutional right to the privacy of medical, sexual, financial, and perhaps other categories of highly personal information — information that most people are reluctant to disclose to strangers— and have held that the right is defeasible only upon proof of a strong public interest in access to or dissemination of the information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chasensky v. Walker
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.