Douglas v. Dobbs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “concluding that protection of a right to privacy in a person's prescription drug records, which contain intimate facts of a personal nature, is sufficiently similar to other areas already protected within the ambit of privacy”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Guthrie v. Weber · 3 Cal. 5th 561 - Lewis v. Superior Court of L. A. Cnty.

2. “Under the doctrine of qualified immunity, government officials performing discretionary functions, generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Robbins v. Wilkie

3. “Supreme Court decisions [also] `make it clear that the right [to privacy] has some extension to activities relating to marriage, procreation, contraception, family relationships, and child rearing and education.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Aid for Women Lmsw Rn v. Foulston