United States v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.2d 391 · 1977
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Doe v. Webster (1979), United States v. Doe (1980)
40 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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 18 U.S.C. § 5005 · 18 U.S.C. § 5010 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 534 (National Law)
Relies on Tatum v. United States · Tarlton v. Saxbe · United States v. McMains · Morera v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Where a youth offender has been placed on probation by the court, the court may thereafter, in its discretion, unconditionally discharge such youth offender from probation pri- or to the expiration of the maximum period of probation theretofore fixed by the court, which discharge shall automatically set aside the conviction, and the court shall issue to the youth offender a certificate to that effect. (emphasis supplied).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is within the inherent equitable powers of a federal court to order the expungement of criminal records in an appropriate case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not authorize expunction of the record of a conviction which has been set aside pursuant to section 5021,”
3 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.