Wheeldon v. Madison’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Hondroulis v. Schuhmacher (1989), Largey v. Rothman (1988)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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 Phelps Dodge Corp. v. AFL-CIO Joint Negotiating Committee · 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant · Canterbury v. Spence · Logan v. Greenwich Hospital Ass'n · Roark v. Allen
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A risk is generally defined as material when a reasonable person, in what the physician knows or should know to be the patient’s position, would be likely to attach significance to the risk or risks in deciding whether to submit to the proposed medical treatment or procedure.” Id. (citing Canterbury v. Spence, 464 F.2d 772, 787 (D.C.Cir.1972)).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] patient has a privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing confidential communications made for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment of his physical, mental or emotional condition[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Materiality is the cornerstone upon which the physician's duty to disclose is based.”
2 later decisions 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.