Robinson v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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

1. ““ * * * In our opinion, when a litigant testifies concerning a particular ailment and its treatment, he has removed the reasons for the privilege. By his own conduct, he has made known to a jury and the public the ailment or disability he is suffering. After such public disclosure, there is no longer any need for the application of the privilege. We think the better rule, and the one required by the language of subsection 6, § 385, is that he has waived the privilege and the opposing party may call as witnesses any physicians who have attended him for the same ailment or disability the nature and extent of which the patient described in his testimony * * * ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Herbert v. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. · Schaffer v. Spicer

2. “Section 385, 12 O.S.1971, provides: “The following persons shall be incompetent to testify: ⅜ * ⅜ ⅜ * * “6. A physician or surgeon concerning any communication made to him by his patient with reference to any physical or supposed physical disease, or any knowledge obtained by a personal examination of any such patient: Provided, that if a person offer himself as a witness, that is to be deemed a consent to the examination * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gulf Oil Company v. Woodson