D. v. D.’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1987
10 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 Callen v. Gill · 60 Wash. 2d 214 - State v. Sullivan · Munzer v. Swedish American Line · 106 N.J. Super. 515 - Osterman v. Ehrenworth · 91 N.J. Super. 377 - Myers v. St. Francis Hospital
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the exercise of the court's inherent power to do what is best to protect the welfare of the infant, the right of the petitioner to invoke the patient-physician privilege must yield to the paramount rights of the infant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. D. v. D.“if the judge finds that * * * a holder of the privilege has caused the physician * * * to testify in any action * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. D. v. D.“If defendant shall fail or refuse to cooperate in the evaluation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. D. v. D.
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.