Doe v. Roe’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Lawrence Brunoli, Inc. v. Town of Branford (1999), Fort Trumbull Conservancy, LLC v. Alves (2003)
123 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 Michaud v. Wawruck · Demar v. Open Space & Conservation Commission · Gillis v. Gillis · Housing Authority v. Lamothe · Rich-Taubman Associates v. Commissioner of Revenue Services
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jurisdiction of the subject-matter is the power [of the court] to hear and determine cases of the general class to which the proceedings in question belong.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage“A determination regarding a trial court's subject matter jurisdiction is a question of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Michaud v. Wawruck , 209 Conn. 407 , 415-16 , 551 A.2d 738 (1988), th[e] court recognized a biological parent's ability to terminate her parental rights while retaining contact with the child and the adoptive family through an `open adoption agreement,' provided that such an arrangement is determined to be in the best interests of the child .”
1 later decision 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.