Simopoulos v. Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 9 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey (1992), City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc. (1983)
35 federal appellate · 9 district · 20 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
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Engle v. Isaac · Patterson v. New York · 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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e conclude that Virginia's requirement that second-trimester abortions be performed in licensed clinics is not an unreasonable means of furthering the State's compelling interest in 'protecting the woman's own health and safety.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Placing upon the defendant the burden of going forward with evidence on an affirmative defense is normally permissible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The requirements at issue [in Akron I ] mandated that all second-trimester abortions must be performed in general, acute-care facilities. In contrast, the Virginia statutes and regulations do not require that second-trimester abortions be performed exclusively in full-service hospitals. Under Virginia’s hospitalization requirement, outpatient surgical hospitals may qualify for licensing as “hospitals” in which second-trimester abortions lawfully may be performed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.