152 Wis. 2d 272 - State v. Cornelius’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2010
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Webster v. Reproductive Health Services · Venturi v. California · 79 Ill. 2d 103 - People v. Greer · 129 Wis. 2d 239 - State v. Williquette
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The infant ... was very limp, very pale, and in extremely poor condition at birth. This was due to the fact that the placenta had detached from the womb, depriving the fetus of oxygen for some unknown period of time. The infant did have a heartbeat and was attempting to breathe. He was placed on artificial respiration, and his condition improved somewhat. A brain wave test (electroencephalograph or EEG) performed on the following day revealed no evidence of brain wave activity. The infant showed no response to stimuli and exhibited no movement of his own. Two days after the accident, his heart and lungs failed and he was pronounced dead.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Our decision does not reach the issue of the rights of a fetusd, and certainly does not discuss its rights vis-á-vis the mother. [The victim] was born alive and died as a result of injuries sustained in útero, and our decision should not be read more broadly than to allow a homicide charge under these circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[H]ad the legislature not defined 'human being' in sec. 939.22(16), we would have applied the 'born alive' rule to fill that void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.