McCorvey v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
385 F.3d 846 · 2004
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Adams v. Travelers Indemnity Co. (2006), Cano v. Baker (2006)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey · 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An evidentiary hearing would have served no useful purpose in aid of the court's analysis of the threshold questions presented, which, as we explained, precluded the relief [Roe] sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cano v. Baker“Suits regarding the constitutionality of statutes become moot once the statute is repealed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.