People v. Decina’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably 202 Ill. 2d 89 - People v. Boclair (2002), 143 Ill. 2d 236 - People v. Wilson (1991)
43 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 People v. . Glen · People v. . Dumar · B.L., T. S.D. Co. v. . K.T. M.M.A. Assn. · Renihan v. . Dennin · People v. Angelo
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]his defendant knew he was subject to epileptic attacks and seizures that might strike at any time. He also knew that a moving motor vehicle uncontrolled on a public highway is a highly dangerous instrumentality capable of unrestrained destruction. With this knowledge, and without anyone accompanying him, he deliberately took a chance by making a conscious choice of a course of action, in disregard of the consequences which he knew might follow from his conscious act, and which in this case did ensue. How can we say as a matter of law that this did not amount to culpable negligence within the meaning of section 1053-a?” (Emphasis in original.) (People v. Decina (1956), 2 N.Y.2d 133, 139-40 , 138 N.E.2d 799, 803-04 , 157 N.Y.S.2d 558, 565 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Unless the patient waives the privilege, a person authorized to practice medicine, registered professional nursing [or] licensed practical nursing ... shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The true test appears to be whether in the light of all the surrounding circumstances, and particularly the occasion for the presence of the third person, the communication was intended to be confidential and complied with the other provisions of the statute.”
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.