Roberts v. Salmi’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. “In the absence of evidence that the professional contributed to or caused the formation of a false memory or otherwise encouraged the patient to falsely implicate his or her parents, the mere diagnosis of childhood sexual abuse as the underlying cause of a mental disorder does not result in a direct foreseeable harm to the patient's parents.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mower v. Childrens Ctr

2. “address whether a mental health professional has a duty of care to third parties who might foreseeably be harmed by the mental health professional's use of techniques that cause a patient to have false memories of sexual abuse.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mower v. Childrens Ctr

3. “[A] mental health professional has a limited duty to his or her patient's parents; namely, a duty to ensure that the professional's treatment does not give rise to false memories of childhood sexual abuse.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mower v. Childrens Ctr