Fedderwitz v. Lamb’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably 82 Ga. App. 321 - Atlanta Journal Co. v. Doyal (1950), 153 Ga. App. 636 - Morton v. Stewart (1980)
43 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 Holmes v. Clisby · Atlanta News Publishing Co. v. Medlock · Oakman v. City of Eveleth · Wilson v. Sullivan · Rogers Nat. Bank v. Marion County
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he great underlying principle upon which the doctrine of privileged communications rests is public policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kocontes v. McQuaid
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.