Doe v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
976 F.2d 1071 · 1992
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Ellis Henderson v. Michael F. Sheahan and J.W. Fairman (2000), United States v. Boyles (1995)
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2674
Relies on Ohio v. Roberts · William Marbury v. James Madison · Idaho v. Wright · Pelaes v. United States · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and in so doing, give the trial judge great deference.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[G]eneral statistics do not establish causation in a specific case.”
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.