Doe v. Delaware’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Ford v. Strickland (1983), 668 So. 2d 954 - Terry v. State (1996)
2 federal appellate · 88 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Addington v. Texas · Hicks v. Miranda · Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn · Smith v. Organization of Foster Families for Equality & Reform · Whitney v. People of State of California
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State cannot terminate parental rights by showing it is in the best interests of the children without showing the parents were unfit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Matter of KA
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.