Schiff v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
691 F.2d 196 · 1982
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2019
11 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2520 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 6002 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Maclin v. Paulson · United States v. Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America · Johnson v. General Motors Corporation
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it does not appear that the true identity of an unnamed party can be discovered through discovery or through intervention by the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Should the district court persist in its dismissal of Doe without further proceedings, the dismissal will be without prejudice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the case against Doe should be now permitted to proceed or whether the case at this stage should be terminated.”
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.