Poe v. Gerstein’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 12 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably National Welfare Rights Organization v. Mathews (1976), Planned Parenthood Association v. Fitzpatrick (1975)
29 federal appellate · 12 district · 10 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 · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Zwickler v. Koota · Douglas v. City of Jeannette · Bailey v. Patterson
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether or not the declaratory judgment was itself properly issued, a question on which we intimate no opinion, the District Court properly refused to issue the injunction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Edelman“it was anticipated that the State would respect the declaratory judgment”
1 later decision 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.