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← 738 F. Supp. 1 - Willner v. Thornburgh

738 F. Supp. 1 - Willner v. Thornburgh’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
May 1992
most recently cited

2 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. · National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab · Grogan v. Garner · Sisson v. Ruby · Harmon v. Thornburgh

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

  1. “whether, between a current Antitrust Division attorney and an applicant for such a position, there is a constitutional distinction that would render the testing of the latter permissible under the Fourth Amendment”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “an applicant has some expectation of privacy; in applying for a job he does not thereby consent to, for example, a warrantless search of his home”
    1 later decision 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.