Roe v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
515 F.2d 279 · 1975
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably Beal v. Doe (1977), Senter v. General Motors Corp. (1976)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Dandridge v. Williams · Hagans v. Lavine · Doe v. Bolton · United States v. American Ry Express Co Southeastern Express Co
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In establishing the Legal Services Corporation system, Congress again provided that no funds of the Corporation could be used for legal assistance for those seeking to procure a nontherapeutic abortion. 42 U.S.C. § 2996f(b) (8).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roe v. Norton · Doe v. Beal“disagreement with the Eighth Circuit's ruling in Wulff v. Singleton, 508 F.2d 1211 (8th Cir. 1974), that the unconstitutionality of this type of statute is so 'obvious and patent' as to obviate the need for a three-judge court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Beal“Pennsylvania Regulations do not conflict with Title XIX of the Social Security Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Beal
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.