Doe v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 174 · 1985
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2001
9 federal appellate · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from West Virginia Southern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1089 · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Andrews v. United States
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly was acting for his personal gratification rather than within the scope of his employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.