Doe v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
981 F.2d 1316 · 1993
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Troy Corp. v. Browner (1997), Byrd v. United States Environmental Protection Agency (1999)
21 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth
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.
“entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“existing rules or understandings . . . that secure certain benefits and that support claims of entitlement to those benefits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“determine whether there is on the record 'no genuine issue as to any material fact.'”
2 later decisions 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.