Doe v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he basis of equity “is the doing of complete, essential, and perfect justice between all the parties without regard to form, and its object is the prevention of injustice.” In granting equitable relief, the court should do “complete justice by enjoining the whole of the unlawful proceeding.” Here the circuit court recognized that eliminating the registration requirement only partially resolved an injustice for pre-1995 offenders. To ensure complete justice, equity required eliminating access to information obtained during the unconstitutional registration process. The injunction was proper to the extent that it prohibited the Superintendent from using photographs and identifying information that were unlawfully acquired. Id. (internal citations omitted).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Doe v. Phillips · Doe v. Merritt

2. “We agree that the circuit court abused its discretion in extending the injunction to photographs and information the Superintendent acquired from non-SORA sources. The broad scope of relief im-permissibly interfered with the Superintendent’s lawful conduct and did nothing to protect the pre-1995 offenders from the negative consequences of the unconstitutional registration requirements.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Doe v. Phillips