O'Boyle v. Jensen’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2014
2 district · 7 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on 379 Pa. Super. 150 - Moses v. McWilliams · Caesar v. Mountanos · Lowe v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. · 676 F. Supp. 585 - Manion v. N.P.W. Medical Center of N.E. Pennsylvania, Inc. · Premack v. J.C.J. Ogar, Inc.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Records of the identity, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment of any patient which are maintained in connection with the performance of any program or activity relating to substance abuse education, prevention, training, treatment, rehabilitation, or research, which is conducted, regulated, or directly or indirectly assisted by any department or agency of the United States shall, except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, be confidential and be disclosed only for the purposes and under the circumstances expressly authorized under subsection (b) of this section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“privilege of confidentiality in medical records `evaporates' when the patient brings a personal injury action which calls into question his physical or mental condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would be manifestly unfair and grossly prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kraus v. Taylor
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.