Fabritz v. Traurig’s Empirical Analysis
583 F.2d 697 · 1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2002
4 federal appellate · 4 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 Morissette v. United States · Thompson v. City of Louisville · Rowell v. United States · State v. Fabritz · Vachon v. New Hampshire
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.
“"Fabritz’ error amounted to a failure to procure medical attention in less than eight hours after her arrival at home. Without expert medical knowledge to place her on notice of the fatal nature of the child’s illness, she treated her as best she knew. The misjudgment was only to the significance of the symptoms and of the immediacy of demand for professional care. In these circumstances the conviction cannot stand — without even so much as murmur of evidential justification.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“utterly bare of proof of a consciousness of criminality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no awareness of wrongdoing on [her] part.”
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.