310 F. Supp. 293 - Babbitz v. McCann’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1994 · most notably Roe v. Wade (1973), Crossen v. Breckenridge (1971)
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 15 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. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * In Babbitz v. McCann, U.S.D.C.E.D.Wisc. 1970, 310 F. Supp. 293, 299 , the Court observed: "`As long ago as 1891, in Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Botsford, 141 U.S. 250, 251 , 11 S.Ct. 1000, 1001 , 35 L.Ed. 734 (1891), the court said: "`No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law. As well said by Judge Cooley, "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity to be let alone."' (Emphasis added) "See also specially concurring opinion of Mr. Justice Ervin in Walsingham v. State, Fla. 1971, 250 So.2d 857 , and Young Women's Christian Ass'n of Princeton, N.J. v. Kugler, U.S.D.C.N.J. 1972, 342 F. Supp. 1048 ." ( 278 So.2d at page 342 : Emphasis the Courts)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The result of [Griswold and its predecessors] is the evolution of the concept that there is a certain zone of individual privacy which is protected by the Constitution. Unless the State has a compelling subordinating interest that outweighs the individual rights of human beings, it may not interfere with a person’s marriage, home, children, and day-to-day living habits. This is one of the most fundamental concepts that the Founding Fathers had in mind when they drafted the' Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Scott · Steinberg v. Brown“"Upon a balancing of the relevant interest, we hold that a woman's right to refuse to carry an embryo during the early months of pregnancy may not be invaded by the state without a more compelling public necessity than is reflected in the statute in question." (Babbitz v. McCann, D.C., 310 F. Supp. 293 [1970])”
1 later decision 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.