Lawrence v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal and have done so for a very long time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Lawrence v. Texas“legislation is presumed to be valid and will be sustained if the classification drawn by the statute is rationally related to a legitimate state interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lawrence v. Texas“A person commits an offense if he engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lawrence v. Texas
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.