  We report on a thermal-expansion study of the ferroelectric phase transition
in insulating Sr$_{1-x}$Ca$_x$TiO$_3$ ($x=0.009$) and its evolution upon
increasing charge-carrier concentration up to $n\simeq 60 \times
10^{19}$cm$^{-3}$. Although electric polarization is screened by mobile charge
carriers, we find clear signatures of the ferroelectric phase transition in the
thermal-expansion coefficient $\alpha$ of the weakly doped metallic samples.
Upon increasing $n$, the transition temperature $T_\mathrm{C}(n)$ and the
magnitude of the anomalies in $\alpha$ rapidly decrease up to a threshold
carrier density $n^\star$ above which broadened anomalies remain present. There
is no indication for a sign change of $\alpha$ as is expected for a
pressure-dependent quantum phase transition with $n$ as the control parameter.
Thus, the ferroelectriclike transition is either continuously fading away or it
transforms to another low-temperature phase above $n^\star$, but this change
hardly affects the temperature-dependent $\alpha(T)$ data.
