Buchanan v. Batchelor’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1990 · most notably Doe v. Commonwealth's Atty. for City of Richmond (1975), Commonwealth v. Balthazar (1974)
8 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Zwickler v. Koota · United States v. James Griggs Raines · Poe v. Ullman
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sodomy is not an act which has the approval of the majority of the people. In fact such conduct is probably offensive to the vast majority, but such opinion is not sufficient reason for the State to encroach upon the liberty of married persons in their private conduct. Absent some demonstrable necessity, matters of (good or bad) taste are to be protected from regulation.... ” ( 308 F.Supp. at 733 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The import of the Griswold decision is that private, consensual, marital relations are protected from regulation by the state through the use of a criminal penalty. Cotner v. Henry, supra, 394 F.2d at 875 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Elliott
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.