Doe v. Duling’s Empirical Analysis
782 F.2d 1202 · 1986
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Gryczan v. State (1997), Diego Militia v. Reno (1996)
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 Warth v. Seldin · Younger v. Harris · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]llegations of a subjective 'chill' are not an adequate substitute for a claim of specific present objective harm or a threat of specific future harm.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every criminal law, by its very existence, may have some chilling effect on personal behavior. That is the reason for its passage.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he constitution delegates to the legislative and executive branches, not to the federal courts, the establishment of broad social agendas and the expression of ideals of public morality.”
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.