Hodgson v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 1350 · 1976
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 1991 · most notably Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, Inc. v. Citizens for Community Action (1977), Ragsdale v. Turnock (1988)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Doe v. Bolton · Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth · Costello v. United States · Ex parte Endo
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he state has the power to insure that the first trimester abortions, like other medical procedures, are performed under conditions providing for the maximum safety of the patient. Statutory provisions which merely authorize the adoption of regulations, albeit during the first trimester, are not unconstitutional. See Planned Parenthood Association v. Fitzpatrick, 401 F.Supp. 554 , 576 (E.D.Pa. 1975)____ Any regulations promulgated under such enabling statutes must, of course, comply with the requirements of the Supreme Court. A state can impose the same regulations on a clinic, specifically built to perform abortions during the first trimester, that are imposed on other clinics that perform surgical procedures requiring approximately the same degree of skill and care as the performance of first trimester abortions. As long as the regulations applying to abortion clinics are the same as those applied to other clinics performing similar surgical procedures, it would not be impermissible to make them specifically applicable to abortion clinics. Where the state regulates abortions beyond its regulation of similar surgical procedures, that difference in treatment must be shown to be necessitated by the particular characteristics of the abortion procedure. See Word v. Poelker, supra at 1351-52.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It shall be unlawful to willfully perform an abortion unless the abortion is performed: * * * * * * with the consent of the woman submitting to the abortion after a full explanation of the procedure and effect of the abortion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rein“(W)henever an abortion of a potentially viable fetus results in a live birth, the child shall be an abandoned ward of the state and the parents shall have no parental rights or obligations * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Freiman v. Ashcroft
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.