DeVasier v. James’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bob Hook Chevrolet Isuzu, Inc. v. Commonwealth, Transportation Cabinet · Williams v. St. Claire Medical Center · Cabinet for Families & Children v. Cummings · Evans v. Morehead Clinic · Humana of Kentucky, Inc. v. McKee Ex Rel. McKee
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.
“[W]e believe the legislature intended to require a current, active expression, by words or gestures, verbal or non-verbal, to the professional; a threat capable of avoidance, not a mere passive presence from which the professional must attempt to discern if a patient poses a threat of harm. ... Simply being a threat of physical violence does not constitute communicating a threat of physical violence.”
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.