first, unlike so many of the courts' worst rulings buck v. bell has never been overruled in ha 1942 case thecourt struck down on oklahoma law proceeding for sterilization of certain criminals but on very narrow grounds. the court expressly chose not to overturn or limit buck v intel after the ruling states continued to sterilize thousands of people. at recently as 2001 a u.s. supreme court of appeals in missouri, one step below the supreme court, cited buck v. bell in rule thong case of a mildly retarded woman order bid the state to be sterilized. second, there's nothing outdated about the case's subject matter in 1938 owners board of eugenics was still functioning and performed the last sterilization in 1981. in 2014, investigative reporters discovered that 150 female prisoners in kaz had been sterilized between 2006 and 2010, not always with the woman's consent, and other examples of eugene nick sterilization done unofficially emerged with disturb regularity. more broadly, the 21st century below hailed as the century of biology arranges era that