Poor v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Bumgardner · 64 Wis. 2d 514 - Rieck v. Medical Protective Co. · University of Arizona Health Sciences Center v. Superior Court · 95 Ill. 2d 193 - Cockrum v. Baumgartner · 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is entitled to recover tort damages for any injury ... proximately resulting from [the defendant’s] conduct. Thus, [the plaintiff] may recover medical expenses, pain and suffering, and lost wages resulting from the tort. [The plaintiff] may also recover any damages which a client under like circumstances who did not become pregnant, could recover, including damages for emotional distress, as well as punitive damages, if warranted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he fact that the child was conceived during the commission of a tort on his mother does not relieve her of the statutory and common law duty of support,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ma v. United States“could seldom, if ever, result in benefit to a child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ma v. United States
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.