159 Wis. 2d 730 - State v. SH’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably State v. Pettit (1992), Commonwealth v. Bishop (1993)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · 117 Wis. 2d 529 - Ball v. District No. 4, Area Board · 155 Wis. 2d 633 - State v. Pulizzano · 128 Wis. 2d 246 - In Re Estate of Balkus v. Security First National Bank of Sheboygan Trust Department · 119 Wis. 2d 871 - In Interest of PAK
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) ... In this section: (b) A communication or information is "confidential" if not intended to be disclosed to 3rd persons other than those present to further the interest of the patient.... (2) General rule of privilege. A patient has a privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing confidential communications made or information obtained or disseminated for purposes of diagnosis or treatment of the patient's physical, mental or emotional condition, among the patient, the patient's physician, the patient's registered nurse, the patient's chiropractor, the patient's psychologist or persons, including members of the patient's family, who are participating in the diagnosis or treatment under the direction of the physician, registered nurse, chiropractor or psychologist.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“if a defendant makes a preliminary showing that the records contain evidence material to his defense, he is entitled to an in camera review by the trial court of those records.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he privilege extends to people "who are participating in the diagnosis or treatment under the direction of the physician, registered nurse, chiropractor or psychologist." Section 905.04(2), Stats. [The social worker] testified that he met regularly with [the psychologist] and discussed what therapy had been done as well as what should be done in the future. We conclude that the trial court correctly held that the privilege extended to the children's communication with [the social worker].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.