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Stenberg v. Carhart

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Abrogated
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
530 U.S. 914
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
36 of 36
Citing cases (total)
36
Treatment dates
2022
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. Stenberg v. Carhart's federal constitutional ruling on previability abortion bans was abrogated when Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization eliminated the constitutional right to abortion. All 36 flagged citations have been read.
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The confirmed change is listed below; the 2019 Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Rutledge opinion applied Stenberg before Dobbs. Dobbs did not expressly name Stenberg in its operative holding, so this entry describes the effect of Dobbs's rule on Stenberg's abortion-right holding, not an express overruling.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

36 later cases cite Stenberg v. Carhart; 36 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Abrogated

  • The Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional abortion right underlying Stenberg's ruling against Nebraska's previability abortion ban.

    Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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