68 Or. App. 573 - Humphers v. First Interstate Bank’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2005
4 district · 15 state decisions
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 Hall v. May Department Stores Co. · Hague v. Williams · Horne v. Patton · 243 F. Supp. 793 - Hammonds v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company · MacDonald v. Clinger
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Tjhere is widespread public knowledge of the ethical standards of the medical profession and widespread belief that confidences made by a patient to a physician may not be disclosed without the permission of the patient. Patients in Oregon have the right to rely on this common understanding of the ethical requirements which have been placed on the medical profession.” (Emphasis added.) ( 684 P.2d 581, 587 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Whatever, in connection with my professional practice or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“for so palpable a wrong, the law provides a remedy.”
1 later decision 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.