Chatelain v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2015
2 federal appellate · 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 · 19 Cal. 3d 564 - Justus v. Atchison · Summerfield v. Superior Court, Maricopa Cty. · Dietrich v. Inhabitants of Northampton · Endresz v. Friedberg
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“create an inconsistency in the laws of this State by holding `person' included viable fetus for the purpose of the wrongful death statute when we have reached the contrary conclusion in the criminal law and the law of probate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the life of every unborn child from conception until birth, to the extent permitted by the Federal Constitution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he General Assembly is particularly suited to making this policy decision,”
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.