111 Md. App. 511 - Lemon v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The common law duty of care owed by a health care provider to diagnose, evaluate, and treat its patient ordinarily flows only to the patient, not to third parties. Thus, it has often been said that a malpractice action lies only where a health care provider-patient relationship exists and there has been a breach of a professional duty owing to the patient.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 152 Md. App. 657 - Dehn v. Edgecombe

2. “absent a statute permitting otherwise, the patient has a right to assume that his medical condition will not voluntarily be disclosed by the provider to other persons without the patient's consent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. (2007)

3. “[T]he relationship between a health care provider and [a] patient is one of trust and confidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. (2007)