Aldo Mario Lovisi and Margaret Lovisi v. A. E. Slayton, Jr., Superintendent, Leake Parrish, Superintendent’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 349 · 1976
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Beller v. Middendorf (1980), Rich v. Secretary of Army (1984)
11 federal appellate · 14 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 Katz v. United States · Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(Doe ) necessarily confined the constitutionally protected right of privacy to heterosexual conduct ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 , 93 S.Ct. 705 , 35 L.Ed.2d 147 (1973), and Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 , 93 S.Ct. 739 , 35 L.Ed.2d 201 (1973), the Court recognized a related right of privacy—the right of a woman to terminate a pregnancy by an abortion, unqualified to the end of the first trimester of pregnancy and qualified thereafter by proper state regulation to preserve the state’s interest in the preservation and protection of maternal health and preservation of the life of a viable fetus.”
1 later decision 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.