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410 U.S. 959

Roe v. Wade

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 26, 1973

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1973-02-26

Relies on District of Columbia v. Carter · Richardson v. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. · Robinson v. Neil

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1973-02-26

How this case has been cited

Cited by 132 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2007 · most notably Roe v. Wade (1973), Doe v. Bolton (1973)

16 federal appellate · 13 district · 64 state decisions — followed in 25 states

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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.

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