Coleman v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Jackson v. Bumgardner (1986), Sard v. Hardy (1977)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 29 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 · 64 Wis. 2d 514 - Rieck v. Medical Protective Co. · 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“which, presumably, permits a jury to say that a life has been weighed and found wanting and thus the parents have been”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"To permit the parents to keep their child and shift the entire cost of its upbringing to a physician who failed to determine or inform them of the fact of pregnancy would be to create a new category of surrogate parent. Every child's smile, every bond of love and affection, every reason for parental pride in a child's achievements, every contribution by the child to the welfare and well-being *Page 722 of the family and parents, is to remain with the mother and father. For the most part, these are intangible benefits, but they are nonetheless real. . . . We hold that such result would be wholly out of proportion to the culpability involved, and that the allowance of recovery would place too unreasonable a burden upon physicians, under the facts and circumstances here alleged."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“proper support for a defendant’s motion requires proof that the defendant conformed to the requisite standards of care under the circumstances at issue. This, in turn, requires proof [from an expert witness] of the relevant medical standards followed by physicians in good standing in the community under like circumstances and a showing that the defendant’s conduct was in conformity with those standards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ogden v. Gallagher
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.