Coleman v. DeWitt’s Empirical Analysis
282 F.3d 908 · 2002
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Roe v. Wade · United States v. Salerno · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court’s creation of this right under the Fourteenth Amendment was not ... a determina tion that the state has no prescriptive interest in matters involving the unborn. Quite to the contrary, the Court in Roe recognized that the state had important interests in protecting fetal life.” (citing Roe, 410 U.S. at 162-62 , 93 S.Ct. 705 )). . See Carhart, 127 S.Ct. at 1633 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lawrence v. State
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.