Doe v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield United’s Empirical Analysis
112 F.3d 869 · 1997
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 13 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 191 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Stoterau (2008), Does Thru XXIII v. Advanced Textile Corporation (2000)
79 federal appellate · 13 district · 12 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 Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia · Fmc Corporation v. Holliday
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 191 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The people have a right to know who is using their courts.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he use of fictitious names is disfavored, and the judge has an independent duty to determine whether exceptional circumstances justify such a departure from the normal method of proceeding in federal courts.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Like a suit to challenge an administrative decision, a suit under ERISA is a review proceeding, not an evidentiary proceeding.”
5 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.