Usen v. Usen’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Mandeville (1982), 48 Ill. App. 3d 172 - Koerner v. Westland (1977)
28 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 2 Cal. 3d 415 - In Re Lifschutz · In the Matter of Paul Pappas · Leonard v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · McClean v. University Club · Clifford v. Clifford
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a patient shall have the privilege of refusing to disclose, and of preventing a witness from disclosing, any communication, wherever made , between said patient and a psychotherapist relative to the diagnosis or treatment of the patient's mental or emotional condition”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We are not free to water down the legislative policy embodied in [ G. L. c. 233, § 20B,] by loose construction or by giving our approval to informal procedures different from those prescribed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the patient did not lose her privilege to prevent disclosure of a communication merely because it was made part of a hospital record”
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.