Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge No. 5 v. City of Philadelphia’s Empirical Analysis
812 F.2d 105 · 1987
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 19 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably 7 Cal. 4th 1 - Hill v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn. (1994), Doe v. Poritz (1995)
39 federal appellate · 19 district · 18 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 15 U.S.C. § 1681 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Buckley v. Valeo · Paul v. Davis · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The factors which should be considered in deciding whether an intrusion into an individual’s privacy is justified are the type of record requested, the information it does or might contain, the potential for harm in any subsequent nonconsensual disclosure, the injury from disclosure to the relationship in which the record was generated, the adequacy of safeguards to prevent unauthorized disclosure, the degree of need for access, and whether there is an express statutory mandate, articulated public policy, or other recognizable public interest militating toward access.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he more intimate or personal the information, the more justified is the expectation that it will not be subject to public scrutiny.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. No. 01-4363 · T.N. v. B.D.“But the merit of appellant's claim of invasion of his privacy ... must be considered in light of the specific provisions of the Act, and any intrusion must be weighed against the public interest in subjecting the Presidential materials of appellant's administration to archival sereening.”
5 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.