Doe v. Pringle’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.2d 596 · 1976
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 19 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2014 · most notably District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman (1983), Worldwide Church of God v. McNair (1986)
55 federal appellate · 19 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
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Younger v. Harris · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann · Paul v. Davis
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The first is a constitutional challenge to the state's general rules and regulations governing admission; the second is a claim, based on constitutional or other grounds, that the state has unlawfully denied a particular applicant admission.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“subject matter jurisdiction to review a final order of the Colorado Supreme Court denying a particular application for admission to the Colorado Bar”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in essence, an attempt by Doe to seek review in inferior federal courts of the entire state proceedings, including the order of the Colorado Supreme Court refusing to grant his second application for admission.”
2 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.