Roe v. Conn’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Bowers v. State (1978), Custody of a Minor (1979)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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. § 2281
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Goldberg v. Kelly · Roe v. Wade · Gault · Stanley v. Illinois
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“less drastic measures would be unavailing.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“any child, who, while under sixteen years of age . . . whose home, by reason of neglect, cruelty, or depravity, on the part of his parent or parents, . . . is an unfit and improper place for such child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the Constitution recognizes as fundamental the right of family integrity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.