194 Wis. 2d 439 - Steinberg v. Jensen’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 217 Wis. 2d 493 - Gorton v. Hostak, Henzl & Bichler, S.C. (1998), Blum ex rel. Studinski v. 1st Auto & Casualty Insurance (2010)
3 federal appellate · 56 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 117 Wis. 2d 529 - Ball v. District No. 4, Area Board · 150 Wis. 2d 688 - State v. Blalock · 148 Ill. App. 3d 581 - Petrillo v. Syntex Laboratories, Inc. · 144 Wis. 2d 223 - Schuster v. Altenberg · 11 Cal. 3d 924 - Rudnick v. Superior Court
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(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 nurse, the patient's chiropractor, the patient's psychologist, the patient's social worker, the patient's marriage and family therapist, the patient's professional counselor or person, including members of the patient's family, who are participating in the diagnosis or treatment under the direction of the physician, registered nurse, chiropractor, psychologist, social worker, marriage and family therapist or professional counselor (emphasis added).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Condition an element of claim or defense. There is no privilege under this section as to communications relevant to or within the scope of discovery examination of an issue of the physical, mental or emotional condition of a patient in any proceedings in which the patient relies upon the condition as an element of the patient's claim or defense, or, after the patient's death, in any proceeding in which any party relies upon the condition as an element of the party's claim or defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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 in the consultation, examination, or interview, or persons reasonably necessary for the transmission of the communication or information or persons who are participating in the diagnosis and treatment under the direction of the ... psychologist. . . including the members of the patient's family.”
2 later decisions 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.