Doe v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
370 F.3d 558 · 2004
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Doe v. Public Citizen (2014), Smith v. Jefferson County Board of School Commissioners (2011)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · Lemon v. Kurtzman · County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union · United States National Bank v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the plaintiffs seeking anonymity are suing to challenge governmental activity; (2) whether prosecution of the suit will compel the plaintiffs to disclose information of the utmost intimacy; (3) whether the litigation compels plaintiffs to disclose an intention to violate the law, thereby risking criminal prosecution; and (4) whether the plaintiffs are children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n organizational plaintiff may establish associational standing to bring an action in federal court on behalf of its members when: (1) its members would otherwise have standing to sue as individuals; (2) the interests at stake are germane to the group’s purpose; and (3) neither the claim made nor the relief requested requires the participation of individual members in the suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would have tried to alert him ... I'd have said: `Look do you want to cause your family trouble? This is a rural, conservative place, and very emotional about religion. Attack religion and crusades begin. But you need to follow your own conscience.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Porter
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.