175 Mich. App. 269 - Monusko v. Postle’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2017
2 district · 20 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We are of the opinion that the recognition of a cause of action under these circumstances would require the extension of traditional tort concepts beyond manageable bounds[.] * * * * * * [T]here is no predicate at common law or in our statutes for judicial recognition of the birth of a defective child as an injury to the child... . We determined long ago in a case involving policy issues as sensitive as the ones at bar that foreseeability alone is not the hallmark of legal duty for if foreseeability were the sole test we could not logically confine the extension of liability. [Citations omitted.] Unlimited hypotheses accompanied by staggering implications are manifest. The perimeters of liability although a proper legislative concern, in cases such as these, cannot be judicially established in a reasonable and practical manner. * * * * * * While the temptation is always great to provide a form of relief to one who has suffered, it is well established that the law cannot provide a remedy for every injury incurred." [Citation omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Walker v. Rinck“direct connection between the test and immunization procedure and the harm . . . and the fact that the test and the preconception immunization are specifically designed to prevent rubella syndrome in children that are not yet conceived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“essentially a question of whether the relationship between the actor and the injured person gives rise to any legal obligation of the actor's part for the benefit of the injured person[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Walker v. Rinck
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.