Kaufman v. Kaufman’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions

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

1. ““ * * * The courts have long recognized the fact that impotence is frequently the result of psychogenic causes. [Footnote omitted.] Indeed one medical authority states that most cases of impotence seen by urologists are of the psychic type rather than the result of physical defects. * * * In diagnosing such a subjective condition the physician must necessarily rely largely upon the history and symptoms described to him by the patient. Accordingly it was proper for [the physician] to base his diagnosis as to the defendant’s impotence upon the history and symptoms which the latter related to him [footnote omitted] and the trial justice should have Permitted him to answer the question propounded to him.” (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sarda v. Sarda

2. “"The courts have long recognized the fact that impotence is frequently the result of psychogenic causes. Indeed one medical authority states that most cases of impotence seen by urologists are of the psychic type rather than the result of physical defects. The same authority says that in some such cases individuals who have imagined and convinced themselves that they are impotent may by the force of such mental conviction be unable to perform the sexual act although in reality nothing but their state of mind prevents them from doing so."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Helen v. Thomas