72 Ill. App. 3d 435 - Geisberger v. Willuhn’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 379 Pa. Super. 150 - Moses v. McWilliams (1988), 128 Ill. App. 3d 859 - Dymek v. Nyquist (1984)
4 federal appellate · 53 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 Fulghum v. State · 116 Cal. App. 2d 445 - Costa v. Regents of University of California · In re Albert Lindley Lee Memorial Hospital · Kaplan v. Manhattan Life Ins. Co. of New York · Wolf v. People
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No physician or surgeon shall be permitted to disclose any information he may have acquired in attending any patient in a professional character, necessary to enable him professionally to serve such patient, except only * * * (2) in actions, civil or criminal, against the physician for malpractice, (3) with the expressed consent of the patient, ° e (4) in all civil suits brought by or against the patient, * * * wherein the patient’s physical or mental condition is an issue, * * * (6) in any criminal action where the charge is either murder by abortion, attempted abortion or abortion • * Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 51, par. 5.1.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“publicity that unreasonably places the other in a false light before the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pruitt v. Chow
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.