Hodgson D’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2007 · most notably Arkansas Medical Society, Inc. v. Reynolds (1993), Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center for Women v. Knoll (1995)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 United States v. American Trucking Associations · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Morton v. Mancari · Crowell v. Benson · Chrysler Corporation v. Brown
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.
“plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution ..., none of the funds provided by this joint resolution shall be used to perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term; or except for such medical procedures necessary for the victims of rape or incest, when such rape or incest has been reported promptly to a law enforcement agent or public health service;....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it remains the judicial function to give legislation its intended effect.” Hodgson v. Board of County Commissioners, 614 F.2d 601, 614 (8th Cir.1980). See also, Heckler v. Edwards, 465 U.S. 870, 879 , 104 S.Ct. 1532, 1537 , 79 L.Ed.2d 878 (1984), rejecting”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.