Coleman v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1991
1 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 11 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 251 Cal. App. 2d 303 - Custodio v. Bauer · Gleitman v. Cosgrove · 31 Mich. App. 240 - Troppi v. Scarf · Di Filippo v. Preston · Henne v. Balick
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The preciousness of human life should not be held to vary with the circumstances surrounding birth. To make such a determination would, indeed, raise the unfortunate prospect of ruling, as a matter of law, that under certain circumstances a child would not be worth the trouble and expense necessary to bring him into the world. * * * ” Coleman v. Garrison, supra, at 761.”
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.