Fraser v. Jennison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 71 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This statute, as we have held, covers information acquired by observation while the physician is in attendance upon his patient, as well as communications made by the patient to him (Briggs v. Briggs, 20 Mich. 341 ); but the rule it establishes is one of privilege for the protection of the patient; and he may waive it if he sees fit (Scripps v. Foster, 41 Mich. 742 ); and what he may do in his lifetime, those who represent him after his death may also do for the protection of the interests they claim under him. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shornick v. Shornick

2. ““No person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery shall be allowed to disclose any information which he may have acquired in attending any patient in his professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient as a physician, or to do any act for him as a surgeon.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grieve v. Howard

3. ““ Any one of those circumstances may co-exist with a-, perfectly sound mind, and any one of them may be looked for as not an improbable misfortune or peculiarity in the-lot of a perfectly sane person.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Prentis v. Bates