Sinkler v. Kneale

How courts have described this case

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

• rejected prior case law which held infant does not have a cause of action for prenatal injuries
• rejected prior case law which held infant does not have a cause of action for prenatal injuries
• rejected prior case law which held infant does not have a cause of action for prenatal injuries
• rejected prior case law which held infant does not have a cause of action for prenatal injuries
• rejected prior case law which held infant does not have a cause of action for prenatal injuries
• right of child to recover for prepartum injuries recognized

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ayala v. Philadelphia Board of Public Education
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-23· cited 419×
• Gilbert v. Korvette's Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 260×
• Renslow v. Mennonite Hospital
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1977-08-08· cited 211×
• Flagiello v. Pennsylvania Hospital
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-03-22· cited 182×
• Nealis v. Baird
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1999-12-07· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. Booth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-02-20· cited 113×
• Barry J. Quinones v. United States of America, and United States Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and Its Agents and Employees
  Third Circuit· 1974-03-06· cited 106×
• State Ex Rel. Odham v. Sherman
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-03-12· cited 98×
• Blake v. Cruz
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1985-04-04· cited 91×
• Amadio v. Levin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-04· cited 90×
• Presley v. Newport Hospital
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1978-11-08· cited 80×
• Graf v. Taggert
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1964-10-19· cited 76×
• Baldwin v. Butcher
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1971-07-02· cited 69×
• Group Health Ass'n v. Blumenthal
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-01-04· cited 67×
• Hack v. Hack
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-14· cited 67×
• Womack v. Buchhorn
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1971-06-01· cited 66×
• Carroll v. Skloff
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-07-01· cited 65×
• Farley v. Sartin
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-12-13· cited 64×
• White v. Yup
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1969-09-12· cited 64×
• Torigian v. Watertown News Co. Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-04-27· cited 58×

Cites

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

• Woods v. Lancet
  New York Court of Appeals· 1951-12-06· cited 477×
• Dietrich v. Inhabitants of Northampton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1884-10-27· cited 178×
• Smith v. Brennan
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1960-01-11· cited 134×
• Allaire v. St. Luke's Hospital
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1900-02-19· cited 109×
• Amann v. Faidy
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1953-05-20· cited 107×
• Mitchell v. Couch
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1955-12-02· cited 105×
• Magnolia Coca Cola Bottling Co. v. Jordan
  Texas Supreme Court· 1935-01-23· cited 96×
• RAINEY v. Horn
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1954-05-17· cited 88×
• Poliquin v. MacDonald
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1957-09-30· cited 79×
• Scott v. McPheeters
  California Court of Appeal· 1939-07-10· cited 79×
• Worgan v. Greggo & Ferrara, Inc.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1956-12-26· cited 76×
• Steggall Ex Rel. Stegall v. Morris
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1953-06-08· cited 75×
• Drabbels v. Skelly Oil Co.
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1951-12-07· cited 68×
• Keyes v. Construction Service, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1960-04-04· cited 65×
• Tucker v. Howard L. Carmichael & Sons Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1951-07-09· cited 60×
• Hornbuckle v. Plantation Pipe Line Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1956-06-12· cited 60×
• Damasiewicz v. Gorsuch
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1951-03-16· cited 54×
• LaBlue v. Specker
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1960-01-04· cited 53×
• Hall v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1960-04-13· cited 40×
• Howell v. Rushing
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1953-09-15· cited 39×