McCartney v. Holmquist’s Empirical Analysis
106 F.2d 855 · 1939
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1989 · most notably Duckett v. Duckett (1943), Cohen v. Evening Star Newspaper Co. (1940)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Gunning v. Cooley · Schwartzman v. Lloyd · Thompson v. Smith · Labofish v. Berman · Nunan v. Timberlake
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) In the courts of the District of Columbia a physician or surgeon may not be permitted, without the consent of the person afflicted, or of his legal representative, to disclose any information, confidential in its nature, that he has acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity and that was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity, whether the information was obtained from the patient or from his family or from the person or persons in charge of him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Logan v. Washington
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.