Fadjo v. Coon’s Empirical Analysis
633 F.2d 1172 · 1981
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 9 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Cinel v. Connick (1994), Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Sales, Inc. v. Avondale Shipyards, Inc. (1982)
37 federal appellate · 9 district · 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Paul v. Davis · Whalen v. Roe · Nixon v. Administrator of General Services
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One is the interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters, and another is the interest in independence in making certain kinds of important decisions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is clear that the legislature cannot authorize by statute an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“concerning `the most private details of [Fadjo's] life.'”
3 later decisions 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.