Alder v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Turner v. State (1972), Taylor v. State (1972)
48 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 Stayner v. Nye · Todd v. State · Myers v. State · Adams v. State · Metzger v. State
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the case at bar the patient was unconscious and was completely in the trust and care of the physician. If, under such circumstances, a physician is prohibited by statute from testifying as to the intoxicated condition of the patient, it is our opinion that the statute would also prohibit testimony of a physician concerning a sample of blood which he took from the patient and caused to be delivered to the State Police officer to be used in determining the alcoholic content of the blood. This was clearly information obtained by the physician `in the sick room' and it was error to overrule appellant's objection to testimony concerning the same”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The following persons shall not be competent witnesses: [[Image here]] “Fourth. Physicians, as to matter communicated to them, as such, by patients, in the course of their professional business, or advice given in such cases.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. State · State v. Moses“prohibit the ascertainment of truth in many controversies,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pelley · Matter of CP
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.