Roe v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2024
3 district · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 1396 (§ 1900 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Maher v. Roe · Beal v. Doe · Clayton P. Kehoe Towing Co. v. United States · 16 Fair empl.prac.cas. 280, 11 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 10,637 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Joseph R. Rizzo, Fire Commissioner Appeal of Fire Officers Union
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e hold that unborn children (fetuses, embryos) are not persons with a legally protectable interest within the meaning of [Federal Rules of Civil Procedure] and, thus, appointment of guardian [a]d litem is neither warranted nor required”
1 later decision 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.