Flack v. Brewster’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1980
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Westover v. . Aetna Life Ins. Co. · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Brubaker · In re Estate of Flint · Fish v. Poorman · Armstrong v. Topeka Railway Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The following persons shall be incompetent to testify: “Sixth. A physician or surgeon concerning any communications made to him by his patient with reference to any physical or supposed physical disease, defect, or injury, or the time, manner or circumstances under which the ailment was incurred, or concerning any knowledge obtained by a personal examination of any such patient, without the consent of the patient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cofer““The prohibition imposed on the physician is the privilege of the patient, and not of the physician, nor yet of the public, and therefore a patient may make a valid contract waiving the privilege afforded him in the statutory prohibition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.