Planned Parenthood League v. Bellotti’s Empirical Analysis
641 F.2d 1006 · 1981
Citation profile
138 federal appellate · 146 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 359 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1986), Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1990)
138 federal appellate · 146 district · 8 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 · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia · Harris v. McRae
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 359 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that plaintiff will suffer irreparable injury if the injunction is not granted; (2) that such injury outweighs any harm which granting injunctive relief would inflict on the defendant; (3) that plaintiff has exhibited a likelihood of success on the merits; and (4) that the public interest will not be adversely affected by the granting of the injunction.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage“misapplication of the law to particular facts”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“a combination of a woman's schedule and the schedule of her abortion clinic may often serve to produce 'a substantially longer delay' than 24 hours.”
2 later decisions 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.