Doe v. Rostker’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Doe v. Frank (1992), Roe v. Aware Woman Center for Choice, Inc. (2001)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 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 50 U.S.C. § 3803 · 50 U.S.C. § 3805 · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Doe v. Bolton · Poe v. Ullman
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.
“A plaintiff should be permitted to proceed anonymously in cases where a substantial privacy interest is involved. The most compelling situations involve matters which are highly sensitive, such as social stigmatization .... That the plaintiff may suffer some embarrassment or economic harm is not enough.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The common thread running through these cases is the presence of some social stigma or the threat of physical harm to the plaintiffs attaching to disclosure of their identities to the public record”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“have carved out limited exceptions to Rule 10 where the parties have strong interests in proceeding anonymously.”
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.