United States v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
461 federal appellate · 114 district · 228 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,335 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Berkemer v. McCarty (1984), Braswell v. United States (1988)
461 federal appellate · 114 district · 228 state decisions — followed in 27 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Wade · Schmerber v. State of California · United States v. Nixon · Gilbert v. California · Boyd v. United States
Cited together with Fisher v. United States · Bellis v. United States · Kastigar v. United States · Hoffman v. United States · Braswell v. United States
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 1,335 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough the contents of a document may not be privileged, the act of producing the document may be.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether, and to what extent, the Fifth Amendment privilege against compelled self-incrimination applies to the business records of a sole proprietorship.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage“producing evidence that possession, existence, and authentication were a 'foregone conclusion.'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.