Doe v. Rose’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.2d 1112 · 1974
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1995 · most notably Maher v. Roe (1977), Greco v. Orange Memorial Hospital Corp. Et Al. (1976)
19 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 · Dandridge v. Williams · Shapiro v. Thompson · Rosado v. Wyman · King v. Smith
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The directive, and the State statute, if interpreted as mandating the Commissioner's directive, would deny indigent women the equal protection of the laws to which they are constitutionally entitled. They alone are subjected to State coercion to bear children which they do not wish to bear, and no other women similarly situated are so coerced. Other women, able to afford the medical cost of either a justifiable abortional act or full term child birth, Have complete freedom to make the choice in the light of the manifold of considerations directly relevant to the problem uninhibited by any State action. The indigent is advised by the State that the State will deny her medical assistance unless she resigns her freedom of choice and bears the child. She is denied the medical assistance that is in general her statutory entitlement, and that is otherwise extended to her even with respect to her pregnancy. She is thus discriminated against both by reason of her poverty and by reason of her behavioral choice. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Beal“as one necessary to save the life of the expectant mother or to prevent serious and permanent impairment to her physical health, and none other. 114 The district court granted the plaintiffs' request for an injunction restraining enforcement of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Beal“Certainly the denial of medical assistance does not serve the State’s fiscal interest, since the consequence is that the indigent may then apply for prenatal, obstetrical and post-partum care and for pre-natal support for the unborn child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roe v. Ferguson
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.