Doe v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
121 federal appellate · 36 district · 298 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 633 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Pennsylvania v. Muniz (1990), Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel (1998)
121 federal appellate · 36 district · 298 state decisions — followed in 37 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 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Wade · Brady v. United States · Schmerber v. 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 633 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to be testimonial, an accused's communication must itself, explicitly or implicitly, relate a factual assertion or disclose information.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`from having to reveal, directly or indirectly, his knowledge of facts relating him to the offense or from having to share his thoughts and beliefs with the Government.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[T]he vast majority of verbal statements thus will be testimonial' because '[t]here are very few instances in which a verbal statement, either oral or written, will not convey information or assert facts.'”
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.