378 Pa. Super. 379 - Commonwealth v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “No physician shall be allowed, in any civil matter, to disclose any information which he acquired attending the patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity, which shall tend to blacken the character of the patient, without consent of said patient, except in civil matters brought by such patient, for damages on account of personal injuries.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 415 Pa. Super. 220 - Commonwealth v. Ellis

2. “Any person taken into custody and charged with any crime involving lewd conduct or a sex offense, or any person to whom the jurisdiction of a juvenile court attaches, may be examined for a veneral [sic] disease by a qualified physician appointed by the department or by the local board or department of health or the court having jurisdiction over the person so charged.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Moore