Baird v. Bellotti’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1994
4 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Crowell v. Benson · Young v. American Mini Theatres, 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The minor, accordingly, is in a no-win situation. If she loses the judicial proceedings, it will be a personal blow, and scarcely a redemption of the ill feeling and tension that undoubtedly resulted from her parents’ refusal of consent and her taking them to court. If she wins, according to defendants’ own expert, she is likely to find herself in an even worse position.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wynn v. Carey“If the Supreme Court concludes that we have impermissibly assigned a greater role to the parents than we should or that we have otherwise burdened the minor’s choice unconstitutionally, we add as a general principle that we would have construed the statute to conform to that interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]f both parents have died or have deserted their family, consent of the mother's guardian or other person having duties similar to a guardian, or any person who had assumed the care and custody of the mother is sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bellotti v. Baird
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.