Doe v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Schear v. Board of County Commissioners (1984), Morgan v. District of Columbia (1983)
2 district · 30 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 Schuster v. City of New York · Riss v. City of New York · Massengill v. Yuma County · 71 Ill. App. 2d 373 - Gardner v. Village of Chicago Ridge · First National Bank Ex Rel. Huckleby v. Nor-Am Agricultural Products, Inc.
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.
“[Wjhere there has been a specific promise or representation by police to a victim in a situation which creates justifiable reliance on the part of the victim, a special duty arises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Liability of Municipality or Other Governmental Unit for Failure to Provide Police Protection”
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.