Rowe v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Doe v. Poritz (1995), Russell v. Gregoire (1997)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Roe v. Wade · Santobello v. New York
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court finds this argument suffers from a shortcoming similar to an argument relying on a legislative expression of purpose. It fails to focus on the substance of what the legislature has done. Placement of a statutory provision in a particular title may reflect nothing more than a perception that the placement will facilitate indexing. Here, whether the law in question is punitive or not, it is undeniably directly associated with certain criminal convictions, and it is perfectly logical to place most of it in [Title 2C]. It may be added that [Title 2C] contains many provisions which are not punitive in character.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The ultimate test for permitting a plaintiff to proceed anonymously is whether the plaintiff has a substantial privacy right which outweighs the ‘customary and constitutionally-embedded presumption of openness in judicial proceedings.’ It is the exceptional ease in which a plaintiff may proceed under a fictitious name.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Shakur“[t]his factor must necessarily be considered a light weight in the balance, for, if accorded substantial significance, it would dictate decisions which could not be squared with the result in cases like United States v. Huss ....”
1 later decision 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.