Jones v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2020
7 federal appellate ·
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 · Singleton v. Wulff · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Doe v. Bolton · Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are not unaware of the deep and proper concern and interest that a devoted and protective husband has in his wife’s pregnancy and in the growth and development .of the fetus she is carrying. Neither has this Court failed to appreciate the importance of the marital relationship in our society. See, e. g., Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 486 [ 85 S.Ct. 1678, 1682 , 14 L.Ed.2d 510 ] (1965); . . Moreover, we recognize that the decision whether to undergo or to forego an abortion may have profound effects on the future of any marriage, effects that are both physical and mental, and possibly deleterious. 51”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scheinberg v. Smith“1) all unmarried, minor pregnant women desiring to terminate their pregnancies, and their physicians; and 2) all married pregnant women desiring to terminate their pregnancies, and their physicians. ■”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scheinberg v. Smith“judicial obligation to sustain the constitutionality of an act whenever possible by severing invalid clauses and permitting the remainder of the act to stand, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scheinberg v. Smith
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.