Heni Sorkin v. S. Lee

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that to impose “the myriad costs of raising a normal healthy child for some indefinite period in the future” is “to inflict a penalty on [the] defendant that is out of all proportion to his wrong”
• denying child-rearing costs where parents failed to mitigate damages by obtaining abortion
• plaintiffs’ failure to have abortion barred recovery of childrearing expenses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Smith v. Gore
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-04-13· cited 139×
• Cockrum v. Baumgartner
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1983-02-18· cited 115×
• Jones v. Malinowski
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-04-06· cited 82×
• Soto Cabral v. Estado Libre Asociado
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1995-04-21· cited 82×
• Robert Robak and Anna Robak, Cross-Appellants v. United States of America, Cross-Appellee
  Seventh Circuit· 1981-11-17· cited 65×
• O'Toole v. Greenberg
  New York Court of Appeals· 1985-03-26· cited 45×
• Miller v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-04-25· cited 44×
• Sandra J. Hartke v. Dr. William McKelway Sandra J. Hartke v. Dr. William McKelway
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-05-20· cited 43×
• Nanke v. Napier
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-04-11· cited 42×
• Byrd v. Wesley Medical Center
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-05-10· cited 41×
• McKernan v. Aasheim
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-08-30· cited 40×
• Flowers v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1984-07-12· cited 39×
• Weintraub v. Brown
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1983-12-30· cited 29×
• Miller v. Rivard
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1992-06-11· cited 27×
• Cohen v. Cabrini Medical Center
  New York Court of Appeals· 2000-05-04· cited 24×
• M.A. v. United States
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1998-01-02· cited 22×
• White v. United States
  D. Kansas· 1981-03-16· cited 19×
• Dehn v. Edgecombe
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-09-04· cited 13×
• Hartke v. McKelway
  District of Columbia· 1981-10-08· cited 11×
• Alice D. v. William M.
  Civil Court of the City of New York· 1982-04-27· cited 11×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Becker v. Schwartz
  New York Court of Appeals· 1978-12-27· cited 460×
• Troppi v. Scarf
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1971-02-26· cited 127×
• Sherlock v. Stillwater Clinic
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1977-10-14· cited 110×
• Coleman v. Garrison
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-11-26· cited 109×
• Robins v. Finestone
  New York Court of Appeals· 1955-06-02· cited 100×
• Terrell v. Garcia
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1973-05-09· cited 91×
• Hackworth v. Hart
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1971-12-17· cited 63×
• Ziemba v. Sternberg
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1974-07-05· cited 36×
• Williams v. State
  New York Court of Appeals· 1966-12-29· cited 34×
• Sala v. Tomlinson
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1979-12-06· cited 34×
• Bishop v. Byrne
  S.D. West Virginia· 1967-03-21· cited 21×
• Green v. Sudakin
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1978-02-23· cited 19×
• Vaughn v. Shelton
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-06-28· cited 17×
• Bushman v. Burns Clinic Medical Center, P. C.
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1978-05-22· cited 16×
• LaPoint v. Shirley
  W.D. Texas· 1976-03-05· cited 12×
• Debora S. v. Sapega
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1977-03-07· cited 9×
• Terrell v. Garcia
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-19· cited 7×
• Chapman v. Schultz
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1975-03-06· cited 6×
• Krauth v. Richmond Memorial Hospital
  New York Court of Appeals· 1963-10-31· cited 2×