Doe v. Forrest’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Gallipo v. City of Rutland (2005), Peerless Insurance v. Frederick (2004)
2 federal appellate · 18 district · 52 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 Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Faragher v. City of Boca Raton · Monge v. California · 54 Cal. 3d 202 - Mary M. v. City of Los Angeles · Hallock v. State
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“aided in accomplishing the tort by the existence of the agency relation”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hat makes the circumstances of this case virtually unique from a policy perspective is the extraordinary power that a law enforcement officer has over a citizen.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o incentive to prevent this kind of conduct is created by leaving the victim uncompensated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.