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Leiser v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

903 F.3d 1137 · 2018

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2026
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Paul v. Davis · Whalen v. Roe · Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · White v. Pauly · Richison v. Ernest Group, Inc.

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. “made clear that any statements in its precedents regarding a constitutional protection against government disclosure of personal information were dicta.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[T]he Supreme Court has made clear that the existence of such a right [to informational privacy] is an open question and it has not abandoned a third precedent which suggests that any right to informational privacy is limited.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[The Second Circuit] declared that 'the interest in the privacy of medical information will vary with the condition' " (quoting Matson , 631 F.3d at 64 ) ). By concluding that the law was not "clearly established”
    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.