Doe Ex Rel. Doe v. Hillsboro Independent School District’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Piotrowski v. City of Houston (2001), McClendon v. City of Columbia (2002)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · City of Canton v. Harris · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown · Albright v. Oliver
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]arents remain the primary source for the basic needs of their children.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there can be no recovery even if the janitor were acting under color of state law.” Id. However, this part of the court’s opinion is not relevant to the case at bar because the court stated this conclusion specifically in the context of rejecting the plaintiff’s theory that the school officials could be held liable for wrongfully hiring the janitor without first checking his criminal background. In the case at bar, in contrast, Plaintiffs have not alleged any liability for wrongful hiring. 4 . According to the court, the narrow state-created-danger theory would require that the state actors”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We decline to hold that compulsory attendance laws alone create a special relationship giving rise to a constitutionally rooted duty of school officials to protect students from private actors. ... [Cjompulsory school attendance, in Texas to attend seven hours of programmed education on each school day, does not create the custodial relationship envisioned by Deshaney[De-Shaney]. The restrictions imposed by attendance laws are not analogous to the restraints of prisons and mental institutions.”
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.