Conyers v. Glenn’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
4
states following
March 1985
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gault · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · McGautha v. California · Dixon v. Alabama State Board of Education
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But the one clear consequence of Griswold is that some showing of overriding public necessity is a necessary predicate to state action interfering with the freedom of the individual.”
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.