Doe v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
851 F.2d 1457 · 1988
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Sussman v. United States Marshals Service (2007), Kennewick Irrigation District v. United States (1989)
16 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 38 U.S.C. § 3301 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000A (Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Hagans v. Lavine · Berkovitz v. United States · Chrysler Corporation v. Brown
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“precludes other forms of declaratory and injunctive relief”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) In the Federal courts in the District of Columbia and District of Columbia courts a physician or surgeon or mental health professional ... may not be permitted, without the consent of the client, or of his legal representative, to disclose any information, confidential in its nature, that he has acquired in attending a client in a professional capacity and that was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity, whether the information was obtained from the client or from his family or from the person or persons in charge of him. (b) This section does not apply to: (1) evidence in a grand jury, delinquency, family, or domestic violence proceeding where a person is targeted for or charged with caus ing the death of or injuring a human being, or with attempting or threatening to kill or injure a human being, ... and the disclosure is required in the interests of public justice;....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“based upon a governmental departure from clear regulatory standards”
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.