Roe v. Kervick’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Rosenberg v. Town of North Bergen (1972), New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority v. McCrane (1972)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 150 state decisions — followed in 10 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 42 U.S.C. § 2501
Relies on Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co. · Loan Association v. Topeka · Harvey v. Essex County Board of Freeholders · Albritton v. City of Winona · 135 N.J. Eq. 244 - Wilentz v. Hendrickson
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an activity which serves as a benefit to the community as a whole, and which, at the same time is directly related to the functions of government.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No donation of land or appropriation of money shall be made by the State or any county or municipal corporation to or for the use of any society, association or corporation whatever.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“public money should be raised and used only for public purposes.”
6 later decisions 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.