Doe v. U.S. Air Force’s Empirical Analysis
812 F.2d 738 · 1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2015
8 federal appellate · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on County of Los Angeles v. Davis · Chappell v. Wallace · Hobson v. Wilson · Sullivan v. Murphy · Paton v. Prade
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think that a declaratory judgment that the materials and information were obtained [from the plaintiff] by violating the Constitution would constitute relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The district court granted plaintiff permission to file his complaint under a pseudonym because of the Air Force's belief that he is homosexual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.