Planned Parenthood Association v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1990 · most notably Colautti v. Franklin (1979), Bellotti v. Baird (1976)
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1396 (§ 1900 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Roe v. Wade · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Shapiro v. Thompson · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“require elaborate funeral provisions, treating the fetus as a human, and that psychologically and financially such regulations [would] burden a pregnant woman's decision concerning abortion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to preclude the mindless dumping of aborted fetuses on to garbage piles.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“make regulations to provide for the humane disposition of dead fetuses.”
2 later decisions 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.