Smith v. Bentley’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Singleton v. Wulff · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · United States v. Harriss
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unlawful for anyone to administer or prescribe any medicine or drugs to any woman with child, with the intent to produce an abortion, or premature delivery of any foetus before or after the period of quickening, or to produce or attempt to produce such abortion by any other means....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not rehabilitate the patent facial invalidity [of the statute] in terms of the statute's application to physicians.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he cited section can be left intact as to laymen....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.