Davis v. Bucher’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 718 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Alexander v. Peffer (1993), Doe v. Luzerne County (2011)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams · Paul v. Davis · Hudson v. Palmer · Whalen v. Roe
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“imported the photos into the prison environment, a habitat presenting an inherent risk of disclosure and a cognizable diminution in [the prisoner’s] reasonable expectations of privacy.” Id. at 720 . Doe, unlike the prisoner in Bucher, had a higher expectation of privacy while she was showering and partially clothed in the Decontamination Area. 8 . County Defendants have not asserted a qualified immunity defense. 9 . Because we hold that there was no search or seizure implicating the Fourth Amendment, there is no need to consider whether the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“elevating them to constitutional dimension would tend to trivialize the Fourteenth Amendment by making it a magnet for all claims involving personal information, state officers, and unfortunate indignities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terry Zaffuto“the state's investigator flagrantly breached a pledge of confidentiality, which had been instrumental in obtaining the personal information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terry Zaffuto
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.