Alberts v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 21 district · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 379 Pa. Super. 150 - Moses v. McWilliams (1988), Commonwealth v. Edwards (2005)
16 federal appellate · 21 district · 82 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Sherbert v. Verner · Everson v. Board of Education
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all physicians owe their patients a duty ... not to disclose without the patient's consent medical information about the patient, except to meet a serious danger to the patient or to others.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The benefits which inure to the relationship of physician-patient from the denial to a physician of any right to promiscuously disclose such information are self-evident. On the other hand, it is impossible to conceive of any countervailing benefits which would arise by according a physician the right to gossip about a patient’s health.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“§ 876. Persons Acting in Concert For harm resulting to a third person from the tortious conduct of another, one is subject to liability if he (c) gives substantial assistance to the other in accomplishing a tortious result and his own conduct, separately considered, constitutes a breach of duty to the third person.”
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.