Zant v. Prevatte’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably 5 Cal. 4th 725 - Thor v. Superior Court (1993), Aamer v. Obama (2014)
8 federal appellate · 37 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 105 Ga. App. 321 - Thomas v. Williams · 156 N.J. Super. 282 - In Re Quackenbush · 6 Mass. App. Ct. 377 - Lane v. Candura · Kendrick v. Adamson · In re Yetter
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Prevatte is not mentally incompetent, nor does he have dependents who rely on him for a means of livelihood. The issue of religious freedom is not present. Under these circumstances, we hold that Prevatte, by virtue of his right of privacy, can refuse to allow intrusions on his person, even though calculated to preserve his life. The [s]tate has not shown such a compelling interest in preserving Prevatte's life, as would override his right to refuse medical treatment." Zant, 248 Ga. at 834 , 286 S.E.2d at 717 .”
7 later decisions 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.