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Griswold v. State of Connecticut’s Empirical Analysis

1965

Citation profile

7,288
cited by 7,288 later decisions
306
cited 306 times by the Supreme Court
50
states following
February 2026
most recently cited

1,475 federal appellate · 691 district · 2,821 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 7,288 later decisions (306 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Katz v. United States (1967), Warth v. Seldin (1975)

1,475 federal appellate · 691 district · 2,821 state decisions — followed in 50 states

2.3k01965197019801990200020102020decided

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 Gideon v. Wainwright · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Mapp v. Ohio · Monroe v. Pape · Griffin v. California

Cited together with Roe v. Wade · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Eisenstadt v. Baird · Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson

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 7,288 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.””
    146 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth · Smith v. Organization of Foster Families for Equality & Reform
  2. “the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized man.”
    47 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Michigan v. · Cruzan Ex Rel. Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health
  3. “the State may not, consistently with the spirit of the First Amendment, contract the spectrum of available knowledge.”
    30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Board of Ed., Island Trees Union Free School Dist. No. 26 v. Pico · United States v. Carlton

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.