Don Stenberg Attorney General of Nebraskas v. Leroy Carhart’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
330 federal appellate · 79 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 827 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Tennessee v. Lane (2004), Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)
330 federal appellate · 79 district · 69 state decisions — followed in 19 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Almendarez-Torres v. United States · Roe v. Wade · Kumho Tire Company, Ltd., et al. v. Patrick Carmichael, Etc., et al. · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Pierce v. Underwood
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 827 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the law requires a health exception in order to validate even a postviability abortion regulation, it at a minimum requires the same in respect to previability regulation.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a statute includes an explicit definition, we must follow that definition, even if it varies from that term's ordinary meaning.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the most commonly used method for performing previability second trimester abortions,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.