Kenneth A. Plante v. Larry Gonzalez, Etc., Jon C. Thomas v. Larry Gonzalez, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
575 F.2d 1119 · 1978
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 7 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Chandler v. Miller (1997), 7 Cal. 4th 1 - Hill v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn. (1994)
62 federal appellate · 7 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Buckley v. Valeo · Roe v. Wade · Paul v. Davis
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to undertake an independent examination of the merits.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The extent of the interest is not independent of the circumstances. Plaintiffs in this case are not ordinary citizens, but state senators, people who have chosen to run for office. That does not strip them of all constitutional protection. * * * It does put some limits on the privacy they may reasonably expect.”.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state actions, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.””
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.