Union Pac. R. v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
152 F. 365 · 1907
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1963
14 federal appellate · 1 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 Vicksburg v. Putnam · Hunt v. Blackburn · Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. O'Connor · Cooper v. Schlesinger · Lincoln v. Claflin
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.
““It is a mistake to assume that a physician cannot testify in any ease to which his patient is a party. He is only forbidden to testify when he obtains information by reason of his. employment to confidential communications intrusted to him in a professional character, and necessary and proper to enable him to discharge his duties.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The essential elements of a privileged or a confidential communication under the Nebraska statute are: (1) The relation of physician and patient; (2) information acquired during this relation; and (3) the necessity anti propriety of the information to enable the physician to treat the patient skillfully in his professional capacity.””
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.