Johnston v. Elkins’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2021
18 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 · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Eisenstadt v. Baird · Bruggeman Ex Rel. Bruggeman v. Schimke · Credit Union of America v. Myers
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[a] physician who assumes the responsibility for a sterilization procedure at the request of a patient assumes a professional duty to render appropriate service, including testing and advice regarding the procedure, exercising the same standard of care applicable to other members of the medical profession in the community.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. C.S. v. Nielson“physical pain and suffering . . . in connection with the pregnancy, childbirth, and tubal ligation, and during a reasonable recovery period thereafter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“natural, probable and direct consequence of professional negligence ... does not contravene the policy of placing a high value on human life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. C.S. v. Nielson
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.