Doe v. McMillan’s Empirical Analysis
459 F.2d 1304 · 1972
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2006 · most notably Doe v. McMillan (1973), Jordan v. United States Department of Justice (1978)
29 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 13 U.S.C. § 8 · 18 U.S.C. § 1905 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Powell v. McCormack
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The claim of an unworthy purpose does not destroy the privilege . . The privilege would be of little value if they [legislators] could be subjected to the cost and inconvenience and distractions of a trial upon a conclusion of the pleader, or to the hazard of a judgment against them based upon a jury’s speculation as to motives . . . . The courts should not go beyond the narrow confines of determining that a committee’s inquiry may fairly be deemed within its province.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“only to prohibit use of the children’s names without their consent. They do not contest the propriety of the investigation generally, nor do they seek to enjoin the conclusions or text of the report. Indeed, they do not even challenge the right of Congress to examine and summarize the confidential material involved. They wish only to retain their anonymity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“forbids public dissemination of information obtained by census takers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Carey v. Klutznick
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.