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Maher v. Roe’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

1,452
cited by 1,452 later decisions
114
cited 114 times by the Supreme Court
29
states following
February 2026
most recently cited

411 federal appellate · 171 district · 272 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 1,452 later decisions (114 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey (1996), Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo (1982)

411 federal appellate · 171 district · 272 state decisions — followed in 29 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.

Relationships

Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Roe v. Wade · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Singleton v. Wulff · Dandridge v. Williams

Cited together with Roe v. Wade · Harris v. McRae · Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Doe v. Bolton

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 1,452 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “There is a basic difference between direct state interference with a protected activity and state encouragement of an alternative activity consonant with legislative policy.”
    104 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Frank S. Beal, Etc. v. Ann Doe Edward W. Maher, Commissioner of Social Services of Connecticut v. Susan Roe John H. Poelker, Etc. v. Jane Doe, Etc · H. L., Etc. v. Scott M. Matheson et al.
  2. “to make a value judgment favoring childbirth over abortion, and to implement that judgment by the allocation of public funds.... [and are free to make] childbirth a more attractive alternative, thereby influencing the woman's decision....”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio v. Himes · State v. Azar
  3. “place[d] no obstacles ... in the pregnant woman's path to an abortion.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health · Planned Parenthood v. Arizona

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.