Jaffee Special Administrator for Allen Deceased v. Redmond’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
267 federal appellate · 200 district · 350 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,447 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Swidler & Berlin v. United States (1998), Sims v. Blot (2008)
267 federal appellate · 200 district · 350 state decisions — followed in 40 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJaffee v. Redmond (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · United States v. Nixon · Upjohn Company v. United States · Elkins v. United States
Cited together with Trammel v. United States · United States v. Nixon · Upjohn Company v. United States · University of Pennsylvania v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · United States v. Gillock
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 1,447 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except as otherwise required by the Constitution of the United States or provided by Act of Congress or in rules prescribed by the Supreme Court pursuant to statutory authority, the privilege of a witness, person, government, State, or political subdivision thereof shall be governed by the principles of the common law as they may be interpreted by the courts of the United States in the light of reason and experience.”
84 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Effective psychotherapy ... depends upon an atmosphere of confidence and trust in which the patient is willing to make a frank and complete disclosure of facts, emotions, memories, and fears. Because of the sensitive nature of the problems for which individuals consult psychotherapists, disclosure of confidential communications made during counseling sessions may cause embarrassment or disgrace. For this reason, the mere possibility of disclosure may impede development of the confidential relationship necessary for successful treatment.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a general duty to give what testimony one is capable of giving, and that any exemptions which may exist are distinctly exceptional, being so many derogations from a positive general rule.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.