Kingsbury v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• recovery limited to medical expenses, cost of sterilization, pain and suffering of the pregnancy, mother's lost wages, husband's loss of consortium
• recovery limited to medical expenses, cost of sterilization, pain and suffering of the pregnancy, mother’s lost wages, husband’s loss of consortium
• limit damages to medical expenses, otherwise place burden of mitigation via abortion or adoption on parents
• court referred to case as \wrongful birth\ case, but child was healthy
• court referred to case as \wrongful birth\ case, but child was healthy
• court referred to case as “wrongful birth” case, but child was healthy

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Cited by

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

• Harbeson v. Parke-Davis, Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-02-10· cited 197×
• Smith v. Gore
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-04-13· cited 139×
• Cockrum v. Baumgartner
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1983-02-18· cited 115×
• James G. v. Caserta
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-07-11· cited 92×
• Smith v. Cote
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1986-07-09· cited 91×
• Lovelace Medical Center v. Mendez Ex Rel. Mendez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1991-01-07· cited 89×
• 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×
• Beardsley v. Wierdsma
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1982-09-03· cited 68×
• Mason v. Western Pennsylvania Hospital
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-31· cited 67×
• 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×
• MacOmber v. Dillman
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1986-02-27· 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×
• Morris v. Sanchez
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1987-11-17· cited 37×
• Torres Ortiz v. Plá
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1989-05-09· cited 33×
• Burke v. Rivo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-03-01· cited 25×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roe v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 5,581×
• Griswold v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,329×
• Eisenstadt v. Baird
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-22· cited 1,851×
• Custodio v. Bauer
  California Court of Appeal· 1967-05-24· cited 139×
• 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×
• Bowman v. Davis
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1976-11-03· cited 79×
• Speck v. Finegold
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-18· cited 58×
• Wilczynski v. Goodman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-06-05· cited 50×
• LaBonte v. National Gypsum Co.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1970-06-30· cited 47×
• Cockrum v. Baumgartner
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-07-02· cited 30×
• Reid v. Spadone Machine Co.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1979-03-30· cited 14×

Other cases named Kingsbury v. Smith

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Kingsbury v. Smith
  Superior Court of New Hampshire· 1842-07-15· cited 3×