Cline v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
87 F.3d 176 · 1996
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably DePiero v. City of Macedonia (1999), Ludwig v. Board of Trustees of Ferris State University (1997)
20 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Paul v. Davis · Cort v. Ash · Cannon v. University of Chicago
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.
“there is no constitutional right to privacy in one's criminal record”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must construe the complaint in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, accept all factual allegations as true, and determine whether the plaintiff undoubtedly can prove no set of facts in support of [the] claims ■ that would entitle [the plaintiff] to relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arrest and conviction information are matters of public record”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.