Johnson v. University Hospitals

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when a failed sterilization procedure results in the birth of a normal, healthy child, recovery of damages is limited to costs associated with the pregnancy.
• “[L]egal responsibility must be limited to those causes which are so closely connected with the result and of such significance that the law is justified in imposing liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• City of Cincinnati v. Beretta U.S.A. Corp.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2002-06-12· cited 254×
• Cincinnati v. Beretta U.S.A. Corp.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2002-06-12· cited 197×
• Anderson v. St. Francis-St. George Hospital, Inc.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1996-10-10· cited 95×
• Dehn v. Edgecombe
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-01-14· cited 93×
• Lovelace Medical Center v. Mendez Ex Rel. Mendez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1991-01-07· cited 89×
• Soto Cabral v. Estado Libre Asociado
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1995-04-21· cited 82×
• Hester v. Dwivedi
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2000-09-06· cited 68×
• Canesi Ex Rel. Canesi v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1999-06-17· cited 46×
• Burns v. Hanson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-08-03· cited 25×
• M.A. v. United States
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1998-01-02· cited 22×
• Girdley v. Coats
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1992-02-25· cited 21×
• Eastman v. Stanley Works
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2009-02-12· cited 19×
• NOCO Co. v. OJ Com., LLC
  Sixth Circuit· 2022-05-20· cited 17×
• Emerson v. Magendantz
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-02-26· cited 16×
• Simmerer v. Dabbas
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2000-09-06· cited 16×
• Schirmer v. Mt. Auburn Obstetrics & Gynecologic Associates, Inc.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2006-03-03· cited 16×
• Wesley v. Walraven
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2013-02-05· cited 14×
• Rouse v. Wesley
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1992-11-02· cited 13×
• State v. Crawford
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2022-05-10· cited 12×
• Mississippi State Federation of Colored Women's Club Housing for the Elderly in Clinton, Inc. v. in the Interest of L.R.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-12-16· cited 11×

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Roe v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 5,581×
• Griswold v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,329×
• Doe v. Bolton
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-26· cited 1,432×
• Custodio v. Bauer
  California Court of Appeal· 1967-05-24· cited 139×
• Smith v. Gore
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-04-13· cited 139×
• University of Arizona Health Sciences Center v. Superior Court
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-07-20· cited 115×
• 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×
• Terrell v. Garcia
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1973-05-09· cited 91×
• Jones v. Malinowski
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-04-06· cited 82×
• Bowman v. Davis
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1976-11-03· cited 79×
• Beardsley v. Wierdsma
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1982-09-03· cited 68×
• Ochs v. Borrelli
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-06-01· cited 68×
• Stills v. Gratton
  California Court of Appeal· 1976-02-25· cited 68×
• Mason v. Western Pennsylvania Hospital
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-31· cited 67×
• Hickman v. Group Health Plan, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1986-10-24· cited 64×
• Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority v. Graves
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-04-17· cited 59×
• Public Health Trust v. Brown
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-10-07· cited 49×
• Miller v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-04-25· cited 44×
• Byrd v. Wesley Medical Center
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-05-10· cited 41×