Beardsley v. Wierdsma’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Jackson v. Bumgardner (1986), 117 Ill. 2d 230 - Siemieniec v. Lutheran General Hospital (1987)
37 state decisions — followed in 26 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 Becker v. Schwartz · 31 Cal. 3d 220 - Turpin v. Sortini · 251 Cal. App. 2d 303 - Custodio v. Bauer · Gleitman v. Cosgrove · 64 Wis. 2d 514 - Rieck v. Medical Protective Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We reject any claim for damages or expenses after the birth of the child. We believe that these latter expenses and damages are too speculative; that the injury is too remote from the negligence; that the injury is out of proportion to the culpability of the tortfeasors; and that the allowance of recovery would place too unreasonable a burden on [the defendants], since it would likely open the way for fraudulent claims, and since it would enter a field that has no sensible or just stopping point.””
8 later decisions 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.