Doe v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1993 · most notably Buckley v. Valeo (1976), Black Panther Party v. Smith (1981)
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 2284
Relies on United States v. O'Brien · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Bell v. Burson · United States v. Harriss
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a lesser intrusion on privacy than reports made public to the world at large”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.