Doe v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
938 F.2d 1370 · 1991
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Jordan v. Sosa (2011), Ralls Corp. v. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (2014)
20 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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 10 U.S.C. § 980 · 21 U.S.C. § 301 (Animal Drug Amendments of 1968) · 21 U.S.C. § 355 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 357 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Craig v. Boren · Honig v. Doe · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(1) the challenged action was in its duration too short to be fully litigated prior to its cessation or expiration, and (2) there is a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party [will] be subjected to the same action again.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The government argues that Doe's challenge [to the use of experimental drugs on military personnel] is either too late or too early: moot because Operation Desert Storm is over; not ripe, because the next conflict is not yet upon us.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“military authority exercised in the field in time of war or in occupied territory”). Cases that have analyzed Section 701(b)(1)(G) have had occasion to address it only in the context of”
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.