Doe v. Chao’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.3d 461 · 2007
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Moore v. Bennette (2008), Dotson v. Pfizer, Inc. (2009)
15 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2106 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on Farrar v. Hobby · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Briggs v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Doe v. Chao Secretary of Labor · Lashawn A. v. Barry
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The principle of hierarchy is no empty shell. It protects the very value and essential nature of an appeal, namely the chance afforded litigants for review of a judgment and for correction, generally by a larger judicial body, of errors that may have serious consequences or work significant injustice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The mandate rule likewise restricts the district court's authority on remand from the court of appeals. First, 'any issue conclusively decided by this court on the first appeal is not remanded,' and second, 'any issue that could have been but was not raised on appeal is waived and thus not remanded.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“determines questions put before it, the orderly resolution of the litigation requires the [lower] court to recognize those interests served by final judgments and to implement the appellate mandate faithfully.”
1 later decision 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.