Doe v. Mundy’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Maher v. Roe · Beal v. Doe · Poelker v. Doe · Doe v. Poelker · Doe v. Mundy
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . Beal, Maher, and Poelker declared no constitutional violation in the failure to provide funding for medically necessary abortions. “It follows that the county may choose to fund the medical aspects of childbirth and decline to fund the performance of any abortion which is not required because of a threat to a woman’s life imposed by continuation of her pregnancy. Accordingly, I find that the plaintiffs cannot prevail on the merits of their claims that rule 26(b) and resolutions A and B violate the due process or equal protection clauses. The decisions in Maher and Poelker appear to me inescapably to foreclose these claims.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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