Bellotti v. Baird’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
283 federal appellate · 90 district · 614 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,377 later decisions (75 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Eddings v. Oklahoma (1982), Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina (1981)
283 federal appellate · 90 district · 614 state decisions — followed in 41 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 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Roe v. Wade · Gault · Stanley v. Illinois · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
Cited together with Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth · Roe v. Wade · H. L., Etc. v. Scott M. Matheson et al. · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc.
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 1,377 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the peculiar vulnerability of children; their inability to make critical decisions in an informed, mature manner; and the importance of the parental role in child rearing.”
154 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f [a pregnant minor] satisfies the court that she is mature and well enough informed to make intelligently the abortion decision on her own, the court must authorize her to act without parental consultation or consent.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“difficult to define, let alone determine....”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.