Flanders v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2018
6 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 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · Maloney v. Conroy · Bird v. W.C.W. · Trusiani v. Cumberland & York Distributors, Inc. · Cameron v. Pepin
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the negligent reporting of sexual abuse is not at issue in this case, there is an inescapable link between the duty to a third party urged by [the plaintiff] and the willingness of a health care professional to pursue a course of treatment that would cause a child to recognize that sexual abuse has occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] health care professional who suspected that a patient had been the victim of sexual abuse and who wanted to explore that possibility in treatment would have to consider the potential exposure to legal action by a third party who committed the abuse.”
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.