Morris v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2011
15 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 300
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Jackson v. Bumgardner · University of Arizona Health Sciences Center v. Superior Court · 31 Mich. App. 240 - Troppi v. Scarf
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person's decision not to conceive a child and to undergo surgical sterilization should not be confused with one's decision to abort a child already conceived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. C.S. v. Nielson
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.