Parker v. Griswold’s Empirical Analysis
1845
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Cress (1917), Alabama Power Co. v. Ickes (1938)
47 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Crooker v. Bragg
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An injury, legally speaking, consists of a wrong done to a person, or, in other words, a violation of his right. It is an ancient maxim that a damage to one, without an injury in this sense (damnum absque injuria) does not lay the foundation of an action; because, if the act complained of does not violate any of his legal rights, it is obvious that he has no cause to complain.””
2 later decisions 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.