34 Conn. Super. Ct. 139 - Simon v. Mullin’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2012
1 district · 8 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 Woods v. Lancet · Smith v. Brennan · Dietrich v. Inhabitants of Northampton · Sinkler v. Kneale · Keyes v. Construction Service, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We adopt the opinion that the fetus from the time of conception becomes a separate organism and remains so throughout its life.... We hold therefore that an infant born alive can maintain an action to recover for prenatal injuries inflicted upon it by the tort of another even if it had not reached the state of a viable fetus at the time of injury.”); Smith v. Brennan, 31 NJ. 353, 367, 157 A.2d 497, 504 (1960) (”
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.