Pierce v. Caday’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Fairfax Hospital v. Curtis (1997), Tashman v. Gibbs (2002)
24 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 Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Womack v. Eldridge · Russo v. White · Carroll v. Alberts · Brown v. Koulizakis
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Some courts in other jurisdictions . . . have recognized the nonstatutory right of a patient to recover damages from a physician for unauthorized disclosure of confidential communications concerning the patient; other courts have refused to create such a cause of action. . . . In view of the General Assembly’s repeated recognition of the privilege, we easily could adopt the view that a civil remedy lies in favor of a patient against a physician if the physician, or anyone under the physician’s control, without the patient’s consent makes an extra-judicial disclosure of confidential information obtained in the course of the physician-patient relationship. . . . But it is unnecessary for us today to recognize expressly the existence of such a cause of action in Virginia in order to decide this case. Indeed, the issue has not been raised or debated, the parties presuming that such a cause of action is available. Therefore, we will assume without deciding that such an action will lie.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] tort based on health care or professional services rendered, or which should have been rendered, by a health care provider to a patient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unnecessary ... to recognize expressly the existence of such a cause of action in Virginia in order to decide this case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.