Doe v. Roe’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
August 2006
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shaffer v. Heitner · Kulko v. Superior Court of California in and for City and County of San Francisco · Sampsell v. Superior Court · Alton v. Alton · Alton v. Alton
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The terminology of subject matter jurisdiction is awkward here, as it points to ‘competency’ — whether the court has been vested by the Legislature with power to decide cases of given substantive content, e.g., contract, tort, custody of children. See Restatement of Judgments § 7, Comment b (1942). . . . It is another question whether, of all the States of the Union, this Commonwealth through a court competent in custody matters can constitutionally exert judicial power over a particular lawsuit of that sort, and, if it can, whether it should.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. E.N. v. E.S.
How this case has been treated — in progress
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