 It was rarely mentioned in Supreme Court decisions before the second half of the 20th century, when it was cited by several of the justices in "Griswold v. Connecticut" (1965).The Court in that case voided a statute prohibiting use of contraceptives as an infringement of the right of marital privacy.This right was, in turn, the foundation upon which the Supreme Court built decisions in several landmark cases, including, "Roe v. Wade" (1973), which overturned a Texas law making it a crime to assist a woman to get an abortion, and "Planned Parenthood v. Casey" (1992), which invalidated a Pennsylvania law that required spousal awareness prior to obtaining an abortion.