Doe v. Briley’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.3d 777 · 2009
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2025
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Paul v. Davis · Olim v. Wakinekona · Wisconsin v. Constantineau · Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail · Sweeton v. Brown
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We review a district court’s decision to vacate a decree for an abuse of discretion.”
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.