Slayton v. Willingham’s Empirical Analysis
726 F.2d 631 · 1984
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Andrews v. Deland (1991), Schowengerdt v. General Dynamics Corp. (1987)
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 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. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Allen v. McCurry · Paul v. Davis · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. · City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think that the district court misapplied Paul v. Davis . That case held that publicity that damaged the plaintiff's reputation and no more was neither a deprivation of his fourteenth amendment liberty interest nor a violation of his constitutional right to privacy. 424 U.S. at 712-13 , 96 S.Ct. 1155 . Since Paul v. Davis , however, the Supreme Court has explicitly recognized that the constitutional right to privacy encompasses an "individual interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters." Whalen v. Roe, 429 U.S. 589 , 599, 97 S.Ct. 869 , 51 L.Ed.2d 64 (1977) (footnote omitted); 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“a litigant in one lawsuit may not, in a later lawsuit, assert the contrary of issues actually decided in and necessary to the judgment of the first suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“disclosure of personal matters rather than mere damage to his reputation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paul Q v. Verniero
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.