Colautti v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
630 federal appellate · 194 district · 332 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,997 later decisions (72 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. (1982), Kolender v. Lawson (1983)
630 federal appellate · 194 district · 332 state decisions — followed in 42 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
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Singleton v. Wulff · Dandridge v. Williams · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc.
Cited together with Roe v. Wade · Kolender v. Lawson · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth · 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 1,997 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“elementary canon of construction that a statute should be interpreted so as not to render one part inoperative.”
102 later decisions quote this exact passage“... excludes any meaning that is not stated.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`trade-off' between the woman's health and additional percentage points of fetal survival.'”
10 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.