Wolfe v. Schroering’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 523 · 1976
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Planned Parenthood League v. Bellotti (1981), Zbaraz v. Hartigan (1985)
11 federal appellate · 2 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 · Doe v. Bolton · Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth · Fisher v. United States · Greco v. Orange Memorial Hospital Corp. Et Al.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decision to abort, indeed, is an important, and often stressful one, and it is desirable and imperative that it be made with full knowledge of its nature and consequences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.