Sydney v. Pingree’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2023
1 district · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Jech v. Burch · 536 F. Supp. 1048 - Florida Women's Medical Clinic, Inc. v. Smith
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our first inquiry is whether the statute in question intrudes upon a constitutionally protected right of the plaintiffs. Following the reasoning of the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 , 93 S.Ct. 705 , 35 L.Ed.2d 147 (1973), this court concludes that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the plaintiffs’ right to choose the name of their child from arbitrary state action. The Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade and other privacy cases holds that the liberty component of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment encompasses a freedom of choice in certain matters of marriage and procreation. This constitutional right of liberty and privacy is broad enough to include the right of parents to choose a name for their child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In conclusion, the court having found that there is a constitutional right of parents to choose the name of their child, and the state having shown no reasonable justification for impinging upon that right, the court holds that Florida Statute § 382.16(5)(a), which requires that a child conceived and born in wedlock shall be given the father's surname, is unconstitutional.”
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.