Roe v. Wade

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding “that the Texas Abortion Laws must be declared unconstitutional because they deprive single women and married couples of their right, secured by the Ninth Amendment, to choose whether to have children”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

37 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Roe v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 5,581×
• United States v. Vuitch
  Supreme Court· 1971-04-21· cited 259×
• Janice Abele v. Arnold Markle
  Second Circuit· 1971-12-13· cited 79×
• State v. Barquet
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1972-02-14· cited 51×
• Doe v. Bolton
  N.D. Georgia· 1970-07-31· cited 46×
• Young Women's Christian Ass'n of Princeton, NJ v. Kugler
  D. New Jersey· 1972-02-29· cited 44×
• TX Alli for Retd Amer v. Scott
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-03-16· cited 41×
• Doe v. Scott
  N.D. Illinois· 1971-01-29· cited 39×
• Steinberg v. Brown
  N.D. Ohio· 1970-12-18· cited 36×
• Poe v. Menghini
  D. Kansas· 1972-03-13· cited 34×
• Andrews v. Ballard
  S.D. Texas· 1980-07-09· cited 33×
• Cheaney v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1972-07-24· cited 31×
• Rosen v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners
  E.D. Louisiana· 1970-08-07· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Brunelle
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-01-13· cited 28×
• Corkey v. Edwards
  W.D. North Carolina· 1971-02-01· cited 26×
• Byrn v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1972-07-07· cited 26×
• Crossen v. Breckenridge
  Sixth Circuit· 1971-06-23· cited 26×
• Walsingham v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-07-12· cited 25×
• Abele v. Markle
  D. Connecticut· 1972-04-18· cited 25×
• National Ass'n of Property Owners v. United States
  D. Minnesota· 1980-07-24· cited 20×

Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• Griswold v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,329×
• Flast v. Cohen
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 3,484×
• Meyer v. Nebraska
  Supreme Court· 1923-06-04· cited 3,363×
• Connally v. General Construction Co.
  Supreme Court· 1926-01-04· cited 3,272×
• Snyder v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-08· cited 2,822×
• Prince v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1944-03-27· cited 2,515×
• Thornhill v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1940-04-22· cited 2,351×
• Dombrowski v. Pfister
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-26· cited 2,255×
• Loving v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 2,147×
• Skinner v. Oklahoma Ex Rel. Williamson
  Supreme Court· 1942-06-01· cited 1,929×
• Stanley v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-07· cited 1,725×
• Massachusetts v. Mellon
  Supreme Court· 1923-06-11· cited 1,546×
• Lanzetta v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1939-03-27· cited 1,416×
• Zwickler v. Koota
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-05· cited 1,325×
• Golden v. Zwickler
  Supreme Court· 1969-03-04· cited 1,203×
• Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15
  Supreme Court· 1969-10-13· cited 1,031×
• Bates v. City of Little Rock
  Supreme Court· 1960-02-23· cited 775×
• Giaccio v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1965-11-08· cited 598×
• Cameron v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 595×