Azzolino v. Dingfelder’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Jackson v. Bumgardner (1986), Rhyne v. K-Mart Corp. (2004)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 91 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Roe v. Wade · Planned Parenthood Assn. of Kansas City, Mo., Inc. v. Ashcroft · Becker v. Schwartz · 31 Cal. 3d 220 - Turpin v. Sortini · Berman v. Allan
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It should be reemphasized here that the plaintiffs only allege that the defendants negligently caused or permitted an already conceived and defective fetus not to be aborted. The plaintiffs do not allege that the defendants in any way directly caused the genetic defect. Therefore, the only damages the plaintiffs allege they have suffered arise, if at all, from the failure of the defendants to take steps which would have led to abortion of the already existing and defective fetus.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“life, even life with severe defects, cannot be an injury in the legal sense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The implications of any such proposition are staggering. Would claims be honored, assuming the breach of an identifiable duty, for less than a perfect birth? And by what standard or by whom would perfection be defined?”
3 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.