Eagle v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
88 F.3d 620 · 1996
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably White v. McKinley (2008), State v. Russo (2002)
27 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 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 Mitchell v. Forsyth · Kentucky v. Graham · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Johnson v. Jones
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To violate [Riley's] constitutional right of privacy the information disclosed must be either a shocking degradation or an egregious humiliation of her to further some specific state interest, or a flagrant breach of a pledge of confidentiality which was instrumental in obtaining the personal information.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ar from being 'inherently private,' the details of Eagle's prior guilty plea are by their very nature matters within the public domain.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the most intimate aspects of human affairs”
4 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.