People v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2009
1 district · 5 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 7 Cal. 3d 756 - People v. Perry · Clark v. District Court, Second Judicial District, City & County of Denver · Bond v. District Court In & For the County of Denver · People v. District Court in & for the City & County of Denver · People v. Walker
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the physician-patient privilege is to enhance the effective diagnosis and treatment of illness by protecting the patient from the embarrassment and humiliation that might be caused by the physician’s disclosure of information imported to him by the patient during the course of a consultation for the purposes of medical treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Tauer
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.