Steinberg v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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
Relies on Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Magna Oil Corp. v. Bateson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The words of the Ohio statute, taken in their ordinary meaning, have over a long period of years proved entirely adequate to inform the public, including both lay and professional people, of what is forbidden. The problem of the plaintiffs is not that they do not understand, but that basically they do not accept, its proscription."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barquet“No person shall prescribe or administer a medicine, drug, or substance, or use an instrument or other means with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman, unless such miscarriage is necessary to preserve her life, or is advised by two physicians to be necessary for that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barquet“unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such mother,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barquet
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.