Roe v. Rampton’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2006
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. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Eisenstadt v. Baird · Zwickler v. Koota
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The old abortion law [which severely limited a woman's ability to obtain an abortion] was a drastic constitutional invasion of the rights of human beings, namely[ ] women, who were compelled to go through with a pregnancy, which is a form of involuntary servitude.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jane L. v. Bangerter““To enable the physician to exercise his best medical judgment, he shall . . . [n]otify, if possible, the parents or guardian of the woman upon whom the abortion is to be performed, if she is a minor . . . .” Utah Code Ann. § 76-7-304 (2) (Supp.1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Irwin
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.