Sendak v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc. (1983), Deerfield Medical Center v. City of Deerfield Beach (1981)
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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 · Doe v. Bolton · Connecticut v. Menillo · Cheaney v. Indiana · Cheaney v. State
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With respect to the State's important and legitimate interest in the health of the mother, the 'compelling' point . . . is at approximately the end of the first trimester. . . . (F)rom and after this point, a State may regulate the abortion procedure to the extent that the regulation reasonably relates to the preservation and protection of maternal health. Examples of permissible state regulation in this area are requirements as to the qualifications of the person who is to perform the abortion; as to the licensure of that person; as to the facility in which the procedure is to be performed, that is, whether it must be a hospital or may be a clinic . . ., As to the licensing of the facility; And the like. 13 "This means . . . that, for the (first trimester), the attending physician, in consultation with his patient, is free to determine, without regulation by the State, that . . . the patient's pregnancy should be terminated. If that decision is reached, the judgment may be effectuated by an abortion free of interference by the State.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““Abortion shall in all instances be a criminal act except when performed under the following circumstances: (a) During the first trimester of pregnancy for reasons based upon the professional medical judgment of the pregnant woman’s physician provided: (1) It is performed by such physician in a hospital, or a licensed health facility as defined in IC 1971, 16-10-2 which offers the basic safeguards as provided by a hospital admission, and has immediate hospital back-up; .... [Acts 1973, P. L. 322, Sec. 2; Amended by Acts 1978, P. L. 143, Sec. 1.]””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““[T]he insufficiency of the State’s interest in maternal health is predicated upon the first trimester abortion’s being as safe for the woman as normal childbirth at term, and that predicate holds true only if the abortion is performed by medically competent personnel under conditions insuring maximum safety for the woman.” 423 U.S. at 11 , 96 S.Ct. at 171 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.