State v. O'BRIEN

How courts have described this case

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

• presidential proclamation opposing abortion would not alter the law as declared by the United States Supreme Court
• “In short, the defense of necessity asserted here cannot be utilized when the harm sought to be avoided [abortion] remains a constitutionally protected activity and the harm incurred [trespass] is in violation of the law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Sahr
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1991-05-07· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Brogan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-05-10· cited 25×
• Now v. Operation Rescue
  District of Columbia· 1990-07-31· cited 19×
• City of Wichita v. Tilson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1993-06-28· cited 15×
• State v. Burkemper
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1994-06-14· cited 15×
• Jalesia McQueen, Appellant. v. Justin Gadberry
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2016-11-15· cited 13×
• State of Missouri v. Charles David Girardier III
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2015-12-08· cited 12×
• Allison v. City of Birmingham
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-02-01· cited 11×
• State v. Aguillard
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1990-09-13· cited 5×
• State v. Bowers
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1993-03-24· cited 5×
• State v. Walton
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1992-10-29· cited 5×
• State of Missouri v. Landon Matthew Thomas
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2014-06-24· cited 4×
• State of Missouri v. Byron Parker Aston
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2014-06-24· cited 3×
• State v. Wyatt
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1990-12-14· cited 3×
• State of Missouri v. Jason Michael Hurst
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2023-03-21
• State of Missouri v. Sara M. Eyler
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2023-02-07

Cites

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

• Roe v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 5,581×
• United States v. Bailey
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-21· cited 1,333×
• Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
  Supreme Court· 1989-07-03· cited 490×
• United States v. Walter Ward Dorrell, III
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-04-17· cited 126×
• O'GRADY v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-08-16· cited 107×
• Sigma Reproductive Health Center v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-11-22· cited 90×
• Cleveland v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-07-24· cited 70×
• Gaetano v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1979-08-24· cited 41×
• Bobo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-12-21· cited 40×
• People v. Krizka
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-12-31· cited 36×
• City of St. Louis v. Klocker
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1982-06-01· cited 33×
• City of Chicago v. Mayer
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1974-01-23· cited 30×
• State v. Jordan
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1973-05-22· cited 29×
• State v. Horn
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1985-10-01· cited 28×
• Buckley v. City of Falls Church
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-09-06· cited 28×
• People v. Stiso
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-02-05· cited 24×
• State v. Aguilar
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1968-07-08· cited 22×
• Erlandson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-12-15· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Markum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-02· cited 15×
• People v. Crowley
  New York Town and Village Courts· 1989-01-17· cited 15×