Washington v. Glucksberg’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
825 federal appellate · 405 district · 1,068 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,567 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably County of Sacramento v. Lewis (1998), Troxel v. Granville (2000)
825 federal appellate · 405 district · 1,068 state decisions — followed in 47 states
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
reviewedCompassion in Dying v. Washington (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Daniels v. Williams · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Turner v. Safley · United States v. Salerno
Cited together with County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Collins v. City of Harker Heights · Reno v. Flores · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Troxel v. Granville
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 3,567 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“implicit in the concept of ordered liberty,”
247 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition,”
60 later decisions quote this exact passage“a 'careful description' of the asserted fundamental liberty interest.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.