Lawrence v. Griswold’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““And, this being a suit between the original parties, the want or failure of consideration was a sufficient defense.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wallabout Bank v. Peyton