Doe v. Burnham’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.3d 476 · 1993
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Hennessy v. Penril Datacomm Networks, Inc. (1995), United States v. Brack (1999)
33 federal appellate · 8 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Bell v. Wolfish · Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co. · Rosenberg v. Comerica Bank · California v. Ramos
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On review of a challenge to the sufficiency of the jury instructions, the question is not the correctness of a single phrase, but whether the instructions as a whole were sufficient to inform the jury correctly of the applicable law and the theory of defense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“confused or misled the jury causing prejudice to a litigant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Law enforcement officers may not strip search an individual for contraband unless the officers have a reasonable basis to believe at the time of the search that the individual is concealing contraband on his or her body. The test of reasonableness requires a balancing of the privacy interests involved in the search and the government's need for conducting the search.”
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.