Doe v. Zimmerman’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1990
6 federal appellate · 2 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 Roe v. Wade · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Grayned v. City of Rockford · 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is sufficient reason to believe that the fetus may be viable,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colautti v. Franklin“to live outside the mother's womb albeit with artificial aid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colautti v. Franklin“for the preservation of the life or health of the mother,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wolfe v. Schroering
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.