Scheetz’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Doe v. Poritz (1995), Claim of Doe v. City of New York (1994)
5 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Paul v. Davis · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Olmstead v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he question of whether a federal constitutional right to privacy has been violated is a distinct question from whether ... a state common law right to privacy has been violated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terry Zaffuto“[T]he contours of the confidentiality branch are murky.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eagle v. Morgan
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.