Supreme Court of the United States, 1974

Doe v. Flowers

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided April 15, 1974 · Brennan, Forth, Jordan, Would

416 U.S. 922; 94 S. Ct. 1921; 40 L. Ed. 2d 279; 1974 U.S. LEXIS 512 (United States Reports)

Cases that cite this one

40 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.

Ledet v. Fischer (District Court, M.D. Louisiana 1982)
Simpson v. Miller (District Court, N.D. Illinois 1982)
Keene v. United States (District Court, S.D. West Virginia 1979)
Horn v. Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (10th Cir. 1977)
Jane Doe, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc., a Corporation (4th Cir. 1975)
Conference of African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church v. Shell (Pa. Commw. Ct. 1995)
Diamond Shamrock Refining & Marketing Co. v. Nueces County Appraisal District (Tex. 1994)
Nueces County Appraisal District v. Diamond Shamrock Refining & Marketing Co. (Tex. App. 1993)
H.P. Hood, Inc. v. Commissioner of Agriculture, Food & Rural Resources (District Court, D. Maine 1991)
Presbytery of Beaver-Butler v. Middlesex Presbyterian Church (Pa. 1985)
Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition v. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (10th Cir. 2014)
Cloverland-Green Spring Dairies, Inc. v. Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Bd. (3d Cir. 2002)
Grant's Dairy—Maine, LLC v. Commissioner of Maine Department of Agriculture, Food & Rural Resources (1st Cir. 2000)
Farmland Dairies v. McGuire (District Court, S.D. New York 1992)
R Communications, Inc. v. Sharp (Tex. App. 1992)
Whittaker v. Philadelphia Electric Co. (In re Whittaker) (United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania 1988)
Gaynell McCuin v. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1st Cir. 1987)
Watts v. Pennsylvania Housing Finance Co. (In re Watts) (United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania 1987)
Crane v. Commissioner of Department of Agriculture, Food & Rural Resources (District Court, D. Maine 1985)
Dallas County Appraisal District v. L.D. Brinkman & Co. (Texas) (Tex. App. 1985)
Piney Woods Country Life School v. Shell Oil Company (5th Cir. 1984)
Board of Education of Hamilton County Community Unit School District No. 10 v. Regional Board of School Trustees (Ill. App. Ct. 1984)
McCarthy v. Finley (Ill. App. Ct. 1984)
Piney Woods Country Life School v. Shell Oil Co. (5th Cir. 1984)
Doe v. Heckler (District Court, D. Maryland 1983)

This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

Opinion of the Court

Appeal from D. C. N. D. W. Ya. Motion Of appellants. for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Judgment affirmed.

Mr. Justice Douglas would reverse the judgment for the reasons set forth in his dissent in Edelman v. Jordan, 415 *923U. S. 651, 678 (1974); Mr. Justice Brennan dissents and would reverse the judgment for the reasons set forth in his dissent in Edelman v. Jordan, 415 U. S. 651, 687 (1974).

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