Alexander v. Peffer’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 1348 · 1993
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Frey v. City of Herculaneum (1995), Denius v. Dunlap (2000)
28 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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 Hishon v. King & Spalding · Paul v. Davis · Collins v. City of Harker Heights · Palko v. State of Connecticut · 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o violate [a person'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 bre[a]ch of a pledge of confidentiality which was instrumental in obtaining the personal information.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is clear that no relief could be granted under any set of facts that could be proved consistent with the allegations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In Whalen v. Roe , 429 U.S. 589 , 97 S. Ct. 869 , 51 L. Ed. 2d 64 (1977) ( Whalen ), the Supreme Court determined that one component of the protection of the right to privacy embodied in the [F]ourteenth [A]mendment is an individual's interest in avoiding disclosures of personal matters.”
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.