Bowman v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Jackson v. Bumgardner (1986), Lovelace Medical Center v. Mendez Ex Rel. Mendez (1991)
11 federal appellate · 79 state decisions — followed in 22 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 · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Doe v. Bolton · 251 Cal. App. 2d 303 - Custodio v. Bauer · Gleitman v. Cosgrove
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The choice not to procreate, as part of one's right to privacy, has become (subject to certain limitations) a Constitutional guarantee. See Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), 381 U.S. 479 , 85 S.Ct. 1678 , 14 L.Ed.2d 510 ; Roe v. Wade (1973), 410 U.S. 113 , 93 S.Ct. 705 , 35 L.Ed.2d 147 ; and Doe v. Bolton (1973), 410 U.S. 179 , 93 S.Ct. 755 , 35 L.Ed.2d 147 . For this court to endorse a policy that makes physicians liable for the foreseeable consequences of all negligently performed operations except those involving sterilization would constitute an impermissible infringement of a fundamental right."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A third issue, that appellees’ damages should be limited to the expenses of the pregnancy after a negligently performed sterilization, was not raised at the appellate level. To the extent that this issue is not settled in our discussion of appellant’s other propositions of law, we decline to decide it. * * *” (Citations omitted.) (Emphasis sic.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“indemnity agreements purporting to release a party from the consequences of his negligence and failing to express that intent in `clear and unequivocal' terms to be unenforceable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.