State v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2015
12 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 · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Shapiro v. Thompson · Plyler v. Doe
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe further that punishing homosexual acts as a Class A misdemean- or, see Section 566.090.2, is rationally related to the State’s constitutionally permissible objective of implementing and promoting the public morality. We further find that Section 566.090.1(3) is rationally related to the State’s concededly legitimate interest in protecting the public health. The State has argued that forbidding homosexual activity will inhibit the spread of sexually communicable diseases like acquired [immunodeficiency] syndrome (AIDS).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Keeney v. Fitch
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.