State v. Staat’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
5 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Stempler v. Speidell (1985), Branch v. Wilkinson (1977)
5 district · 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 Shapiro v. Thompson · Pierson v. . the People · Brown v. St. Paul City Railway Co. · 71 Wash. 2d 621 - State v. Boehme · Hohenthal v. Smith
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A licensed physician * * * shall not, without the consent of the patient, be allowed to disclose any information or any opinion based thereon which the professional acquired in attending the patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable the professional to act in that capacity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. A physician-patient relationship existed; 2. The “information” acquired by the physician was of the type contemplated by the statute; 3. Such information was acquired by the physician in attending patient; and 4. The information was necessary to enable the physician to act in a professional capacity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[d]espite persistent academic and judicial criticism of this evidentiary privilege * * * it is nevertheless our duty to enforce it to the full extent reasonably necessary for the attainment of the longstanding legislative policy for which it was created[.]”
3 later decisions 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.