Jacobs v. Theimer’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 31 Cal. 3d 220 - Turpin v. Sortini (1982), Roark v. Allen (1982)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 27 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 · 251 Cal. App. 2d 303 - Custodio v. Bauer · Gleitman v. Cosgrove · 64 Wis. 2d 514 - Rieck v. Medical Protective Co. · 31 Mich. App. 240 - Troppi v. Scarf
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Insofar as the child sues for damages for life itself . . . the objection is more understandable. The objection is to an award based upon speculation as to the quality of life”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The economic burden related solely to the physical defects of the child is a different matter which is free from the above objection. These expenses lie within the methods of proof by which the courts are accustomed to determine awards in personal injury cases. No public policy obstacle should be interposed to that recovery. It is impossible for us to justify a policy which at once deprives the parents of information by which they could elect to terminate the pregnancy likely to produce a child with a defective body, a policy which in effect requires that the deficient embryo be carried to full gestation until the deficient child is born, and which policy then denies recovery from the tortfeasor of costs of treating and caring for the defects of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The complaint is not that the defendant doctor failed to perform an abortion or tell Mrs. Jacobs that she should obtain an abortion elsewhere ... but the plaintiffs contend only that the defendant should have given them information as to Mrs. Jacobs condition and then, with the information she had a right to expect from her doctor, the decision would have been made by the plaintiffs themselves to terminate the pregnancy.”
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.