Wulff v. Signleton’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1999 · most notably Singleton v. Wulff (1976), Maher v. Roe (1977)
20 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Flast v. Cohen · O'Shea v. Littleton
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear violation of the Equal Protection Clause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Singleton v. Wulff · Doe v. Poelker“(12) Family planning services as defined by federal rules and regulations; provided, however, that such family planning services shall not include abortions unless such abortions are medically indicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Singleton v. Wulff“(d)eprives plaintiffs' patients of the fundamental right of a woman to determine for herself whether to bear children”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Singleton v. Wulff
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.