# Washington v. Glucksberg

> Supreme Court of the United States · June 26, 1997 · 521 U.S. 702

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9433526

## Case

- **Full name:** WASHINGTON Et Al. v. GLUCKSBERG Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** June 26, 1997
- **Citations:** 521 U.S. 702; 11 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 190; 97 Daily Journal DAR 8150; 65 U.S.L.W. 4669; 97 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5008; 117 S. Ct. 2258; 138 L. Ed. 2d 772; 1997 U.S. LEXIS 4039
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Ginsburg
- **Judges:** Kehnquist, Rehnquist, O'Con-Noe, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, O'Connor, Ginsburg, Breyer, Stevens, Souter
- **Cited by:** 2,435 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Reported abrogated on other grounds by Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015) — not on the Supreme Court's list.
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 1
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9433526

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

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## Opinion text

Justice Ginsburg,
concurring in the judgments. *
I concur in the Court’s judgments in these cases substantially for the reasons stated by Justice O’Connor in her concurring opinion, ante, p. 786.
[This opinion applies also to No. 95-1858, Vacco et al. v. Quill et al., post, p. 793.]

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