Doe v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2024
19 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 244th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Gibbs v. General Motors Corporation · McConnell v. Southside Independent School District · Lear Siegler, Inc. v. Perez
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knew or should have known of her husband's proclivities, [] should have taken steps to ensure that [the grandchild] would not be placed in harm's way or to otherwise ensure that her husband would not be in a position to act on his temptations”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Js v. Rth“a duty exists to not place a child in a situation in which the risk of sexual abuse is heightened and in which the risk is foreseeable”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Js v. Rth
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.