Hague v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 91 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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A patient should be entitled to freely disclose his symptoms and condition to his doctor in order to receive proper treatment without fear that those facts may become public property. Only thus can the purpose of the relationship be fulfilled.”

   14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Horne v. Patton · 68 Or. App. 573 - Humphers v. First Interstate Bank

2. ““We have, then, no expressed public policy pointing to a general prohibition against testimonial revelation of information acquired during the physician-patient relationship, but, on the contrary, our policy is to expose such information to view when it is relevant to the resolution of litigation.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 243 F. Supp. 793 - Hammonds v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company · 195 N.J. Super. 444 - Lazorick v. Brown

3. “A physician may not reveal the confidences entrusted to him in the course of medical attendance, or the deficiencies he may observe in the character of patients, unless he is required to do so by law or unless it becomes necessary in order to protect the welfare of the individual or of the community.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 98 N.J. Super. 590 - Ritt v. Ritt · 249 N.J. Super. 597 - Behringer Est. v. Princeton Med. Ctr.