Doe 1-7 v. Heck’s Empirical Analysis
327 F.3d 492 · 2003
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Gates v. Texas Deparment of Protective & Regulatory Services (2008), Kottmyer v. Maas (2006)
44 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mathews v. Eldridge · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Graham v. Connor · Santosky v. Kramer
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]ecause the defendants had no evidence giving rise to a reasonable suspicion that the plaintiff parents were abusing their children, or that they were complicit in any such abuse, the defendants violated the plaintiffs' right to familial relations by conducting a custodial interview of [the child] without notifying or obtaining the consent of his parents and by targeting the plaintiff parents as child abusers.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“no reasonable child would have believed that he was free to leave”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indeed, this liberty interest in familial integrity is limited by the compelling governmental interest in the protection of children particularly where the children need to be protected from their own parents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.