People v. Elysee’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “§ 5929. Physicians not to disclose information No physician shall be allowed, in any civil matter, 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 matters brought by such patient, for damages on account of personal injuries.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2017 Pa. Super. 245 - Commonwealth v. Grays

2. “[H]ospital records relating to [a] defendant’s physical condition and blood alcohol content following [an] accident — indisputably falls within the scope of the physician-patient privilege as information acquired by a physician ‘in attending [a defendant] in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2017 Pa. Super. 245 - Commonwealth v. Grays

3. “knowledge communicated by others or obtained from investigation, study, or instruction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Atwood