Van Zee v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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

1. ““the information disclosed must be either a shocking degradation or an egregious humiliation ..., or a flagrant bre[a]ch of a pledge of confidentiality which was instrumental in obtaining the personal information.”.... “To determine whether a particular disclosure satisfies this exacting standard, [the court] must examine the nature of the material ... to assess whether the person had a legitimate expectation that the information would remain confidential while in the state’s possession.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 79 F. Supp. 3d 946 - Rollins v. City of Albert Lea

2. “the information disclosed must be either a shocking degradation or an egregious humiliation ..., or a flagrant bre[a]ch of a pledge of confidentiality which was instrumental in obtaining the personal information ... To determine whether a particular disclosure satisfies this exacting standard, [the court] must examine the nature of the material ... to assess whether the person had a legitimate ex pectation that the information would remain confidential while in the state’s possession.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kennedy v. City of Braham

3. “all reasonable inferences in favor of the non-moving party,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hillesheim v. Myron's Cards & Gifts, Inc.