Doe v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1997
5 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 606 (§ 406 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Stanley v. Illinois · Udall v. Tallman · Dandridge v. Williams · Griswold v. State of Connecticut
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no intrusion into the home nor any participation in interpersonal decisions among its occupants. . . The statute does not forbid an unwed mother to have a man in the house or even in her bedroom.. . . The only restriction it imposes ... is that the father satisfy his legal obligation to support his own child and that the mother provide what information she possesses toward that end.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A classification ‘must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest upon some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation, so that all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The object of the inquiry is to enforce a familial monetary obligation, not to interfere with personal privacy. There is no intrusion into the home nor any participation in interpersonal decisions among its occupants . . The statute does not forbid an unwed mother to have a man in the house or even in her bedroom. . The only restriction it imposes upon either the unwed mother or the biological father to do as they please or make any decisions they wish in whatever relationship they desire to maintain is that the father satisfy his legal obligation to support his own child and that the mother provide whatever information she possesses useful toward that end.” (citations & footnotes omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burdick v. Miech
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.