People v. Elysee’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[H]ospital records relating to [a] defendant’s physical condition and blood alcohol content following [an] accident — indisputably falls within the scope of the physician-patient privilege as information acquired by a physician ‘in attending [a defendant] in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2017 Pa. Super. 245 - Commonwealth v. Grays