2008 UT App 23 - State v. Worthen’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2021
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Davis v. Alaska · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Greene v. McElroy · People v. Stanaway
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.
“'The existence of a privilege [or an exception thereto] is a question of law,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] patient has a privilege, during the patient's life, to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing information that is communicated in confidence to a physician or mental health therapist for the purpose of diagnosing or treating the patient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[n]o privilege exists ... [f]or communications relevant to an issue of the physical, mental, or emotional condition of the patient ... in any proceeding in which that condition is an element of any claim or defense.”
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.