Boyles v. Cora’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2014
11 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 Thompson v. Ish · Fraser v. Jennison · Epstein v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Green v. Terminal Railroad · Groll v. Tower
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is obvious, the language of the statute is of such sort that its interpretation and application are troublesome. But, because the task is difficult, shall it be made easy by ignoring it ? or by applying the statute automatically to every case and all infor mation ? On the one hand, it might be so construed as to fritter away the provisions of the law. On the other hand, it might be so literally construed as to work great mischief in the administration of justice. The ultimate object of every judicial inquiry is to get at the truth. Therefore, no rule of law standing in the way of getting at the truth should be loosely or mechanically applied. The application of such law must he with discrimination so that it may have the legislative effect intended for it and yet the investigation of the truth he not unnecessarily thwarted.’ ” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““This section, with respect to the privileged character of communications by the patient to the doctor, and observations of the latter by the doctor, particularly within the more recent years, has been criticized as having but little justification for its existence, and of effecting great injury to the cause of justice by the suppression of useful truth, the disclosure of which ordinarily could harm no one”, citing Wigmore on Evidence, section 2380, wherein it is said the privilege is not to he hoth a sword and a shield.”
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.