26 Conn. Super. Ct. 358 - Hatala v. Markiewicz’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Summerfield v. Superior Court, Maricopa Cty. (1985), 55 Ill. 2d 368 - Chrisafogeorgis v. Brandenberg (1973)
42 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Verkennes v. Corniea · Dietrich v. Inhabitants of Northampton · State Ex Rel. Odham v. Sherman · 109 Ohio App. 431 - Stidam v. Ashmore · Poliquin v. MacDonald
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right of personal security consists in a person’s legal and uninterrupted enjoyment of his life, his limbs, his body, his health, and his reputation. Life is the immediate gift of God, a right inherent by nature in every individual; and it begins in contemplation of law as soon as an infant is able to stir in the mother’s womb. * * *. An enfant en ventre sa mere, or in the mother’s womb, is supposed in law to be born for many purposes. It is capable of having a legacy, or a surrender of a copyhold estate made to it. It may have a guardian assigned to it; and it is 'enabled to have an estate limited to its use and to take afterwards by such limitation, as if it were then actually born.””
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.