State v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Chamberlain (1991), Fogarty v. Gallegos (2008)
5 federal appellate · 113 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Preston v. United States · Wenzler v. Pitchess · Federal Power Commission v. Florida Power & Light Co. · Norwell v. City of Cincinnati · United States v. Heliczer
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Self-help measures undertaken by a potential defendant who objects to the legality of the search can lead to violence and serious physical injury. The societal interest in the orderly settlement of disputes between citizens and their government outweighs any individual interest in resisting a questionable search. One can reasonably be asked to submit peaceably and to take recourse in his legal remedies.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gardiner · People v. Hess“An officer is engaged in the performance of his official duties if he is simply acting ■within the scope of what the officer is employed to do. The test is whether the officer is within that compass or is engaging in a personal frolic of his own.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Phillips · State v. Tapia“a peace officer while he is in the lawful discharge of his duties.”
2 later decisions 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.