769 F. Supp. 1 - Doe v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2010
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 50 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 102 of the National Security Act of 1947)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Graham v. Richardson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“) (punctuation omitted). The District Court properly granted judgment for the CIA. IV. 31 Section 102(c) of the National Security Act of 1947 places termination decisions solely within the discretion of the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In light of this fact, John Doe could have derived no expectation of continued employment from”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Gates“It is not irrational for the [FBI] to conclude that the criminalization of homosexual conduct coupled with the general public opprobrium toward homosexuality exposes ... even 'open' homosexuals to the risk of possible blackmail to protect their partners, if not themselves”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Gates“once his probationary period was completed, he would continue to be employed as long as his services were needed, his work was well done, he complied with security regulations, and protected classified information from unauthorized disclosure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Gates
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.