According to famed eugenicist Harry H. Laughlin, whose written testimony was presented during the trial in his absence, Buck's legal defeat signaled the end of "eugenical sterilization's 'experimental period.'" Following the Supreme Court ruling, over two dozen states enacted similar laws, including Oregon and the Carolinas, doubling American sterilizations from 6,000 to more than 12,000 by 1947. Buck was sterilized on October 19th, 1927, roughly five months after the Supreme Court trial verdict. She became the first Virginian sterilized since the 1924 "Eugenical Sterilization Act" passed. The Virginia sterilization law would later inspire Nazi Germany's four hundred thousand sterilizations, including those sanctioned under the 1933 Law for Protection Against Genetically Defective Offspring.