Abele v. Markle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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

1. “'Certainly the interests of a woman in giving of her physical and emotional self during pregnancy and the interests that will be affected throughout her life by the birth and raising of a child are of a far greater degree of significance and personal intimacy than the right to send a child to private school protected in Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 , 45 S.Ct. 571, 69 L.Ed. 1070 (1925), or the right to teach a foreign language protected in Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 , 43 S.Ct. 625, 67 L.Ed. 1042 (1923).'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Miller v. Rumsfeld

2. “statement of legislative purpose makes the issue posed ... quite different from the issue raised by the challenge to the prior statutes.... A statute of this sort, as I previously indicated [in Abele I ], 342 F.Supp. at 810 and 811 n. 18, poses a far more difficult question, one that I did not believe should be decided unless such a statute was enacted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Quill v. Vacco

3. “It is difficult to imagine how a statute permitting abortion could be constitutional if the fetus had fourteenth amendment rights.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lewis v. Thompson