Roe v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
623 F.2d 829 · 1980
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2013 · most notably Harris v. McRae (1980), Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1986)
22 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Singleton v. Wulff · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Morton v. Mancari
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]one 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 agency or public health service.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The matter of what questions may be taken up and resolved for the first time on appeal is one left primarily to the discretion of the courts of appeals, to be exercised on the facts of individual cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“necessary to save the life of the mother”
2 later decisions 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.