Doe v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2021
1 district · 13 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 Roe v. Wade · Stanley v. Illinois · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Wisconsin v. Yoder
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are deeply conscious of the husband's interest in the abortion decision, at least while the parties are living together in harmony. Surely that interest is legitimate. Surely, if the family life is to prosper, he should participate with his wife in the decision. But it does not follow that he must have an absolute veto, or that his veto, reasoned or unreasoned, can be enforced by the Commonwealth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roe v. Rampton“involved a shield for the private citizen against government action, not a sword of government assistance to enable [the potential father] to overturn the private decisions of his fellow citizens.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.