Lambert v. Wicklund’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 14 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New Eng. (2006), Jones v. Mississippi (2021)
55 federal appellate · 14 district · 31 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Bellotti v. Baird · Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health · Hodgson v. Minnesota · Glick v. McKay · Wicklund v. Salvagni
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the constitutionality of a statute which does no more than require notice to the parents, without affording them or any other third party an absolute veto.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[d]espite the fact that Akron II involved a parental notification statute, and Bellotti involved a parental consent statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a fortiori ... satisfied any criteria that might be required for bypass provisions in parental notification statutes”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.