Doe v. McMillan’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
422 federal appellate · 182 district · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,014 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982), Imbler v. Pachtman (1976)
422 federal appellate · 182 district · 113 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDoe v. McMillan (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 44 U.S.C. § 301 · 44 U.S.C. § 501 (Vegetable Ink Printing Act of 1994) · 44 U.S.C. § 738
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Pierson v. Ray · Powell v. McCormack · William Marbury v. James Madison · Wisconsin v. Constantineau
Cited together with Gravel v. United States · Tenney v. Brandhove · United States v. Brewster · United States v. Johnson · Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund
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 1,014 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a discerning inquiry into whether the contributions of immunity to effective government in particular contexts outweigh the perhaps recurring harm to individual citizens.”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a committee of Congress--in the legislative scheme of things, is for all practical purposes Congress itself.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“for introducing material at committee hearings that identified particular individuals, for referring the report that included the material to the Speaker of the House, and for voting for publication of the report,”
7 later decisions 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.