Commonwealth v. Wheeler

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• assuming “a physician may lawfully procure the abortion of a patient if in good faith he believes it to be necessary to save her life or to prevent serious impairment of her health, mental or physical[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
  Supreme Court· 2022-06-24· cited 482×
• People v. Belous
  California Supreme Court· 1969-09-05· cited 140×
• Gleitman v. Cosgrove
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1967-03-06· cited 132×
• State v. Boozer
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1955-12-13· cited 36×
• United States v. Francis X. Kroncke and Michael D. Therriault
  Eighth Circuit· 1972-05-03· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Brunelle
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-01-13· cited 28×
• People v. Ballard
  California Court of Appeal· 1959-02-13· cited 19×
• Kudish v. Board of Registration in Medicine
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1969-06-02· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Brunelle
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1961-01-26· cited 7×
• Jedrzejewski v. Minter
  D. Massachusetts· 1971-11-17

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1876-10-20· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-05-28· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Corbett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-09-17· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Nason
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1925-05-22· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Leger
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-06-28· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1871-11-15· cited 9×