Doe v. A Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Kachmar v. Sungard Data Systems, Inc. (1997), 41 Fair Emplpraccas 358 27 Wage & Hour Cas
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Allen v. McCurry · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Boddie v. Connecticut · Holloway v. Arkansas
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] lawyer ... does not forfeit his rights simply because to prove them he must utilize confidential information. Nor does the client gain the right to cheat the lawyer by imparting confidences to him.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To prevent identification of the company and the possible disclosure of confidential information concerning its affairs”
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.