154 Ga. App. 203 - Shirley v. Bacon’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Bolin v. Wingert (2002), 195 W. Va. 671 - Farley v. Sartin (1995)
26 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 91 Ga. App. 712 - Porter v. Lassiter · Hornbuckle v. Plantation Pipe Line Co. · Tucker v. Howard L. Carmichael & Sons Inc. · 141 Ga. App. 495 - General Motors Corp. v. Davis · 144 Ga. App. 389 - Medi-Clean Services, Inc. v. Hill
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he mere fact that [the mother] had not felt the movement of the fetus does not necessarily mean that the fetus did not move or was not capable of movement at the time of the unborn child’s death”). . See, e.g., Toth v. Goree, 65 Mich.App. 296, 304 , 237 N.W.2d 297, 301 (1975) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is no rule in this state that `quickening' occurs, as a matter of law, only during the fourth month of pregnancy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“able to stir or move within its mother's womb.”
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.