People v. Bricker’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2008
10 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 Doremus v. Board of Ed. of Hawthorne
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e construe § 14 of the penal code to mean that the prohibition of this section shall not apply to "miscarriages" authorized by a pregnant' woman’s attending physician; the effectuation of the decision to abort is also left to the physician's judgment; however, a physician may not cause a miscarriage after viability except where necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother. 208 N.W.2d at 175 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The excision from the statute, by constitutional construction, of a certain class, viz., medical professionals, neither affects the balance of the classes coming within the ambit of the clear legislative intent nor exonerates the same from criminal responsibility. In short, we cannot accept as a necessary implication that, because doctors may perform abortions under prescribed circumstances, means that anyone who has or will perform an abortion can do so with impunity. [Bricker, supra, 208 N. W. 2d at 175-76 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Norflett“Now that the United States Supreme Court has spoken concerning the constitutionality of state abortion laws, we seek to save what we can of the Michigan statutes. The central purpose of this legislation is clear enoughto prohibit all abortions except those required to preserve the health of the mother. The Supreme Court now requires other exceptions. They can properly be read into the statutes to preserve their constitutionality.”
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.