State v. Soto

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting the reasoning of Cass and Home because, although Massachusetts and South Carolina are “common law states,” Minnesota is a “code state”
• “It does not follow that because we held ... that next of kin might recover damages arising out of the destruction of a viable fetus in a civil action ..., that a viable fetus is a ‘human being’ for purposes of the criminal law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Booth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-02-20· cited 113×
• State v. Thonesavanh
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2017-09-06· cited 107×
• State v. Merrill
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1990-01-19· cited 96×
• State v. Courchesne
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-06-15· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Lawrence
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-03-20· cited 82×
• Vo v. Superior Court
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1992-01-30· cited 74×
• Farley v. Sartin
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-12-13· cited 64×
• State v. Hough
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-11-05· cited 64×
• State v. Colvin
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2002-06-13· cited 64×
• State v. Shoop
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-06-02· cited 58×
• State v. Gatson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2011-08-03· cited 53×
• Occhino v. Grover
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2002-03-12· cited 35×
• State v. Trudell
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1988-04-29· cited 34×
• State v. Oliver
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-06-16· cited 34×
• State v. Gregg
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 32×
• Cuellar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1997-11-06· cited 32×
• In Re Estate of Jobe
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1999-03-23· cited 29×
• Meadows v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1987-01-26· cited 25×
• v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2020-06-01· cited 25×
• Patricia Marie Boyd v. State of Minnesota
  Eighth Circuit· 2001-12-17· cited 23×

Cites

33 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×
• Keeler v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1970-06-12· cited 360×
• People v. Greer
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1980-02-22· cited 298×
• A. J. Chromy Construction Co. v. Commercial Mechanical Services, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1977-12-09· cited 228×
• State v. Olson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-10-11· cited 141×
• Allaire v. St. Luke's Hospital
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1900-02-19· cited 109×
• Nyflot v. Commissioner of Public Safety
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1985-06-11· cited 99×
• Mone v. Greyhound Lines, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-07-16· cited 94×
• State v. Forsman
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1977-09-02· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Cass
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-08-16· cited 67×
• State v. Dickinson
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1971-11-24· cited 63×
• People v. Guthrie
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1980-04-24· cited 44×
• Bennett v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1963-01-11· cited 39×
• State v. End
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1950-12-22· cited 37×
• State v. Gyles
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1975-05-29· cited 35×
• Hollis v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 34×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 32×
• State v. Larsen
  Utah Supreme Court· 1978-04-19· cited 31×
• State, City of St. Louis Park v. Quinn
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1971-01-15· cited 30×
• State v. Haas
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1968-05-03· cited 28×