28 F. Supp. 2d 1024 - Eubanks v. Stengel’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Singleton v. Wulff · United States v. Salerno · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he legislature focused directly on protected activity in a manner which everyone knew might be unconstitutional. The legislature could have passed a statute of more limited reach and still achieve its supposed objective. Instead, it decided to go farther. Indeed, as is sometimes the case in controversial issues, the legislature seems to have striven for, in Justice Frankfurter's words, a `purposeful ambiguity.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Court must consider the constitutionality of the group of words, selected and arranged by the General Assembly, presumably intended to ban whatever they encompass.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a procedure the physician . . . knows will kill the fetus.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.