Doe v. Rampton’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Roe v. Wade (1973), Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth (1976)
15 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 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 Baker v. Carr · Roe v. Wade · Stanley v. Illinois · Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · Doe v. Bolton
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.
““Whether, in the words of the Georgia statute, ‘an abortion is necessary’ is a professional judgment that the Georgia physician will be called upon to make routinely. We agree with the District Court, 319 F.Supp., at 1058, that the medical judgment may be exercised in the light of all factors — physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age — relevant to the well-being of the patient. All these factors may relate to health. This allows the attending physician the room he needs to make his best medical judgr ment. And it is room that operates for the benefit, not the disadvantage, of the pregnant woman.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I concur with the majority in striking the following sections: part of 303, and all of 304, 305, 307, 308, 309, 311, 314 and 316.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roe v. Rampton
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.