Doe v. Deschamps’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Doe v. Stegall (1981), Southern Methodist University Ass'n v. Wynne & Jaffe (1979)
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 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 Roe v. Wade · Doe v. Bolton · Poe v. Ullman · Haines v. Kerner · Doe v. Shapiro
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“protect( ) privacy in a very private matter,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 20 Fair empl.prac.cas. 457, 20 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 30,136 Southern Methodist University Association of Women Law Students, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Plaintiff-Intervenor v. Wynne & Jaffe, Southern Methodist University Association of Women Law Students, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Plaintiff-Intervenor v. Thompson, Knight, Simmons & Bullion · Southern Methodist University Ass'n v. Wynne & Jaffe“(W)here the issues involved are matters of a sensitive and highly personal nature,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Plaintiff B v. Francis · 20 Fair empl.prac.cas. 457, 20 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 30,136 Southern Methodist University Association of Women Law Students, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Plaintiff-Intervenor v. Wynne & Jaffe, Southern Methodist University Association of Women Law Students, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Plaintiff-Intervenor v. Thompson, Knight, Simmons & Bullion“(i)n the complaint the title of the action shall include the names of all the parties,”
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.