People v. Benham’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2004
4 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 Barrett v. . the Third Avenue R.R. Co. · Pierson v. . the People · People v. Hovey
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, therefore, such declarations and confidential communications from the patient to the physician are admissible under this statute, when they tend to prove the crime of murder, are they any the less admissible when they tend to disprove it? We think not, and it follows that the evidence of Dr. Skinner is admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he aid of this section [the physician-patient privilege] cannot, however, be invoked to shield a person charged with the murder of the patient.”
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.