Head v. Colloton’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2016
19 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 Whalen v. Roe · Exxon Corp. v. Department of Revenue of Wisconsin · James Sackley Company v. United States · Horne v. Patton · Bonner v. Moran
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“22.2 Right to examine public records— exception. 1. Every person shall have the right to examine and copy public records and to publish or otherwise disseminate public records or the information contained therein. 22.7 Confidential records. The following public records shall be kept confidential, unless otherwise ordered by a court, by the lawful custodian of the records, or by another person duly authorized to release such information: [[Image here]] 2. Hospital records, medical records, and professional counselor records of the condition, diagnosis, care, or treatment of a patient or former patient or a counselee or former counselee, including outpatient. Morbidity and Mortality Study. 135.40. Collection and distribution of information. Any ... hospital ... may provide information, interviews, reports, statements, memoranda, or other data relating to the condition and treatment of any person to the [Iowa] department [of public health], the Iowa medical society or any of its allied medical societies or the Iowa osteopathic medical association or any in-hospital staff committee, to be used in the course of any study for the purpose of reducing morbidity or mortality, and no liability of any kind or character for damages or other relief shall arise or be enforced against any person or organization by reason of having provided such information or material, or by reason of having released or published the findings and conclusions of such groups to advance medical research and me”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We do not believe the legislature intended section 68A.7 to be applicable to administrative subpoenas_ The exemptions are ... applicable only within the framework of “every citizen’s” gen eral right to examine public records under chapter 68A. In this case the Commission did not seek inspection as a “citizen” under chapter 68A; it sought inspection pursuant to its investigative powers granted by chapter 601A and the subpoena power granted to administrative agencies by section 17A.13(1).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An individual’s interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters is constitutionally based. ■ This right is also recognized at common law. A valuable part of the right of privacy 'is the right to avoid publicity concerning private facts. This right can be as important to a potential donor as to a person. in ill health.”
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.