929 F. Supp. 608 - Doe v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions

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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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “• “[G]ender-based violence bars its most likely targets — women—from full [participation] in the national economy.” S.Rep. No. 103-138 at 54. • Domestic violence alone costs employers an estimated $3 to $5 billion annually due to absenteeism from the workplace. S.Hrg. 101-939, Pt. 1, 101st Cong., 2d Sess., Women and Violence, 58 (June 20, 1990). • Estimates suggest “that we spend $5 to $10 billion a year on health care, criminal justice and other social costs of domestic violence.” S.Rep. No. 103-138 at 41. • “[A]s many as 50 percent of homeless women and children are fleeing domestic violence.” S.Rep. No. 101-545 at 37. • “[A]lmost 50 percent of rape victims lose their jobs or are forced to quit in the aftermath of the crime.” S.Rep. No. 103-138 at 54. • Fear of gender-based violence “deters women from taking jobs in certain areas or at certain hours that pose a significant risk of such violence.” Id. • Women often refuse higher paying night jobs in service and retail industries because they fear attack. See id. at 54 n. 70; see also, e.g., S.Hrg. 102-369, 102d Cong., 1st Sess., Violence Against Women: Victims of the System, 86 (April 9, 1991) (testimony of Burt Neuborne) (Women “tend to choose their jobs with one eye looking over their shoulder about their safety”). • Fear of gender-motivated violence deters women from using public transportation and thus “acts as a barrier to mobility, particularly for those women who have no alternative to public transportation because of”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Anisimov v. Lake, D.D.S. · 59 F. Supp. 2d 944 - Timm v. Delong

2. “[C]rimes of violence motivated by gender have a substantial adverse effect on interstate commerce, by deterring potential victims from traveling interstate, from engaging in employment in interstate business, and from transacting with business, and in places involved, in interstate commerce ... by diminishing national productivity, increasing medical and other costs, and decreasing the supply of and the demand for interstate products.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 970 F. Supp. 1375 - Doe v. Hartz · 59 F. Supp. 2d 944 - Timm v. Delong

3. “—“In 1991, at least 21,000 domestic crimes were reported to the police every week; at least 1.1 million reported assaults — including aggravated assaults, rapes, and murders — were committed against women in their homes that year; unreported domestic crimes have been estimated to be more than three times this total.” S.Rep. No. 103-138 at 37. —The nation spends $5 to $10 billion a year on health care, criminal justice and other costs related to domestic violence. Id. at 41. —"An estimated 4 million American women are battered each year by their husbands or partners. Approximately 95% of all domestic violence victims are women. About 35% of women visiting hospital emergency rooms are due to injuries sustained as a result of domestic violence. One study of battered women found that 63 percent of the victims had been beaten while they were pregnant.” H.R.Rep. No. 103- 395, at 26. —Domestic violence costs employers between $3 to $5 billion annually as a result of absenteeism. 139 Cong.Rec. H10349-01, at H10365 (Nov. 20, 1997) (statement of Sally Goldfarb, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund). —Fear of gender-motivated violence deters women from using public transportation and "acts as a barrier to mobility, particularly for those women who have no alternative to public transportation because of economic constraints. If women are in fear of transportation, their employment opportunities are reduced.” Testimony of Helen Neubourne, S.Hrg. 101-939, Pt. 1, at 69. —"As many as 50 perc”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bergeron v. Bergeron