City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
297 federal appellate · 108 district · 204 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 944 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984)
297 federal appellate · 108 district · 204 state decisions — followed in 31 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAkron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc. v. City of Akron (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Meyer v. State of Nebraska
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 944 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is reasonable to assume ... that a state court presented with a state statute specifically governing abortion consent procedures for pregnant minors will attempt to construe the statute consistently with constitutional requirements.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“must give way to the constitutional right of a mature minor or of an immature minor whose best interests are contrary to parental involvement.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“insure that the remains of the unborn child are disposed of in a humane and sanitary manner.”
7 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.