Shornick v. Shornick’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1984
4 federal appellate · 16 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 · In Re the Estate of Nelson · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Brubaker · In re Estate of Flint
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ .... The patient .... may waive it if he sees fit, .... and what he may do in his lifetime, those who represent him after his death may also do for the protection of the interests they claim under him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sprouse v. Mages““Except in two or three jurisdictions, it is usually agreed that the deceased’s representative (and probably also the heir) may waive the privilege.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sprouse v. Mages
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.