Brady v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
751 F.2d 329 · 1984
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 7 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably 144 Wis. 2d 223 - Schuster v. Altenberg (1988), Fraser v. United States (1996)
15 federal appellate · 7 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · Delli Paoli v. United States · Reamer v. Beall · 27 Cal. 3d 741 - Thompson v. County of Alameda
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o impose upon those in the counseling professions an ill-defined “duty to control” would require therapists to be ultimately responsible for the actions of their patients. Such a rule would closely approximate a strict liability standard of care, and therapists would be potentially liable for all harm inflicted by persons presently or formerly under psychiatric treatment. Human behavior is simply too unpredictable, and the field of psychotherapy presently too inexact to so greatly expand the scope of therapist’s liability. In my opinion, the “specific threats to specific victims” rule states a workable, reasonable and fair boundary upon the sphere of the therapist’s liability for the acts of their patients.”
2 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.