Kirchmeyer v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Griswold v. State of Connecticut · 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court · 7 Cal. 4th 1 - Hill v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn. · 2 Cal. 3d 415 - In Re Lifschutz · 14 Cal. 4th 4 - Arnett v. Dal Cielo
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the psychotherapist-patient privilege is grounded in the patient's constitutional right of privacy, the Director had to show a compelling interest justifying production of the medical records sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“making a communication between a physician and surgeon or a doctor of podiatric medicine and his or her patients a privileged communication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“were protected by the psychotherapist-patient privilege of Evidence Code section 1014.”
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.