Goodrow v. Perrin’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Howard (1981), Owens v. State (1999)
4 federal appellate · 30 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 Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Moore v. City of East Cleveland · Whalen v. Roe
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven assuming that the plaintiff has a federal privacy right to engage in consensual heterosexual intercourse with adults, the right does not require the invalidation of [the statutory rape statute]. The reason is that the United States Constitution does not require us to permit the defense of an honest and reasonable mistake to a charged violation of the statutory [rape] provisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holmes“One is the individual interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters, and another is the interest in independence in making certain kinds of important decisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no privacy right to engage in sexual intercourse with a person whom the legislature has determined is unable to give consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.