Krischer v. McIver’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Washington v. Glucksberg · Cruzan Ex Rel. Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health · Vacco v. Quill · Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By broadly construing the privacy amendment to include the right to assisted suicide, we would run the risk of arrogating to ourselves those powers to make social policy that as a constitutional matter belong only to the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sampson v. State“could not be repealed by a mere majority vote of legislators nor ... alter[ed] through any process except constitutional amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[e]very natural person has the right to be let alone and free from governmental intrusion into the person's private life....”
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.