White v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 97 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 14 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Hartford Insurance v. Manor Inn of Bethesda, Inc. (1994), 119 Ill. 2d 496 - Estate of Johnson v. Condell Memorial Hospital (1988)
14 federal appellate · 14 district · 13 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 291
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · Finch v. Connor · 27 Cal. 3d 741 - Thompson v. County of Alameda · Bradley Center, Inc. v. Wessner
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the special relationship between a patient and a psychotherapist creates a duty to third persons,” so long as the intended victim is”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a therapist determines, or pursuant to the standards of his profession should determine, that his patient presents a serious danger of violence to another, he incurs an obligation to use reasonable care to protect the intended victim against such danger,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One who takes charge of a third person whom he knows or should know to be likely to cause bodily harm to others if not controlled is under a duty to exercise reasonable care to control the third person to prevent him from doing such harm.”
3 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.