Wynn v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Colautti v. Franklin (1979), Diamond v. Charles (1986)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Younger v. Harris · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia · Roe v. Wade
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““° ° ° the use of any instrument, medicine, drug or other substance, whatever, with the intent to procure a miscarriage of any woman except when done by a physician in conformity with this Act. It shall not be necessary in order to commit a criminal abortion that the woman be pregnant, or if pregnant, that a miscarriage be accomplished.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“All parents have constitutionally protected rights to have custody of and to care for their children.... They must have adequate notice that the state proposes to remove the children, and an opportunity to prove their fitness as parents at a hearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Keith v. Daley · Keith v. Daley““(a) During the first trimester an abortion shall be performed by a physician; (b) During the second trimester or thereafter, an abortion shall be performed by a physician, in a hospital, on an inpatient basis, with measures for life support which must be available and utilized if there is any clearly visible evidence of viability; (c) During the third trimester, an abortion shall only be performed to preserve the life or to preserve the physical or mental health of the mother by a physician after consultation with at least two other physicians not related to or engaged in practice with the attending physician.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision 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.