In Re B.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 172 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 205 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Jaffee Special Administrator for Allen Deceased v. Redmond (1996), Commonwealth v. Hude (1983)
8 federal appellate · 172 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Katz v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Roe v. Wade · Paul v. Davis
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 205 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The nature of the psychotherapeutic process is such that disclosure to the therapist of the patient’s most intimate emotions, fears and fantasies is required. As pointed out in appellant’s brief: “ ‘People usually enter psychotherapy because they have deep-seated conflicts and impairment of functioning which limit their ability to work effectively and to enjoy fully satisfying relationships with other people, to alleviate these blocks and conflicts, the therapist asks the patient to abandon “rational thought” and to express thoughts and fears that may never have been revealed to anyone else. Indeed, these innermost thoughts are often so painful, embarrassing or shameful that the patient may never before have allowed himself to acknowledge them.’ “The patient in psychotherapy knows that such revelations will be expected if the process is to be beneficial. In laying bare one’s entire self, however, the patient rightfully expects that such revelations will remain a matter of confidentiality exclusively between patient and therapist...” 394 A.2d at 425”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““No person authorized to practice physics or surgery shall be allowed, in any civil case, to disclose any information which he acquired in 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 cases, brought by such patient, for damages on account of personal injuries.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n individual’s interest in preventing the disclosure of information revealed in the context of the psychotherapist-patient relationship has deeper roots than the Pennsylvania doctor-patient privilege statute, and ... the patient’s right to prevent disclosure of such information is constitutionally based.”
6 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.