Doe v. Renfrow’s Empirical Analysis
631 F.2d 91 · 1980
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 7 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably New Jersey v. T. L. O. (1985), Safford Unified School District 1 v. Redding (2009)
49 federal appellate · 7 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. § 1343
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Pierson v. Ray · Wood v. Strickland · Ybarra v. Illinois · Davis v. Mississippi
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It does not require a constitutional scholar to conclude that a nude search of a thirteen-year-old child is an invasion of constitutional rights of some magnitude. More than that: it is a violation of any known principle of human dignity.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But if compulsory administration of a blood test does not implicate the Fifth Amendment, it plainly involves the broadly conceived reach of a search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment. That Amendment expressly provides that “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated____” (Emphasis added.) It could not reasonably be argued, and indeed respondent does not argue, that the administration of the blood test in this case was free of the constraints of the Fourth Amendment. Such testing procedures plainly constitute searches of “persons” ... within the meaning of that Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the sniffing of a trained narcotic detecting canine is not a search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Doe v. Renfrow
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.