Coleman v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1990
1 district · 10 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 Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Mamlin v. Genoe · 251 Cal. App. 2d 303 - Custodio v. Bauer · 31 Mich. App. 240 - Troppi v. Scarf · Lurie v. Republican Alliance
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the defendant's tortious conduct has caused harm to the plaintiff ... and in so doing has conferred upon the plaintiff a special benefit to the interest ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1) The pain and suffering of the wife during her last pregnancy; 2) The cost of the sterilization operation paid the doctor; 3) The loss to the husband of his wife’s consortium; 4) The deprivation to the five previously born children of the amount of care and support they would have received had the sixth child not been born; 5) The medical expenses incurred in the sixth pregnancy; 6) The cost of care and maintenance of the sixth child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether [the plaintiff's proposed expenditures] would minimize damages would require a finding that the effort was reasonably warranted by and proportioned to the injury and the consequences to be avoided ...”
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.