38 Wash. App. 376 - Omer v. Edgren’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2020
6 federal appellate · 9 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 Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. · 98 Wash. 2d 434 - Wilson v. Steinbach · 99 Wash. 2d 609 - Herskovits v. Group Health Cooperative · 99 Wash. 2d 438 - Harris v. Groth
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... there is a public policy to protect a patient from the deliberate and malicious abuse of power and breach of trust by a psychiatrist when that patient entrusts to him her body and mind in the hope that he will use his best efforts to effect a cure. That right is best protected by permitting the victim to pursue civil remedies, not only to vindicate a wrong against her but to vindicate the public interest as well.”
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.