Cooksey v. Landry’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[c]onsistent with the protections afforded psychiatrist-patient communications even after a patient's death, our legislature has determined that a deceased patient's representative cannot waive the psychiatrist-patient privilege. See OCGA § 31-33-4 (providing that statutes authorizing the release of health records to a deceased patient's representative "shall not apply to psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health records of a patient"); OCGA § 37-3-166 (a) (8.1) (authorizing mental health facilities to release a deceased patient's mental health records "to the legal representative of [the] deceased patient's estate, except for matters privileged under the laws of this state.").”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Advantage Behavioral Health Systems v. Eric Cleveland, as Administrator of the Estate of Nicholas Cleveland

2. “the first maxim of equity is that equity follows the law. Thus, a court of equity has no more right than a court of law to act on its own notion of what is right in a particular case. Where rights are defined and established by existing legal principles, they may not be changed or unsettled in equity. Although equity does seek to do complete justice, it must do so within the parameters of the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Northlake Manor Condominium Association, Inc. v. Harvest Assests, LLC

3. “it is the promise of confidentiality that encourages patients to openly discuss their emotional and mental health issues. If psychiatrist-patient communications were protected only until the patient's death, patients might not feel as free to make the disclosures necessary for effective treatment, thereby impeding the primary goal of the privilege.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Advantage Behavioral Health Systems v. Eric Cleveland, as Administrator of the Estate of Nicholas Cleveland