4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 13 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Martin Ex Rel. Scoptur v. Richards.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin Ex Rel. Scoptur v. Richards Anchor | green | “any physician who treats a patient shall inform the patient about the availability of all alternate, viable medical modes of treatment and about the benefits and risks of these treatments.” | 5 |
| 2 | Cobbs v. Grant | green | “the patient's right of self-decision is the measure of the physician's duty to reveal.” | 4 |
| 3 | Scaria v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance | green | “to make such disclosures as appear reasonably necessary under circumstances then existing to enable a reasonable person under the same or similar circumstances confronting the patient at the time of disclosure to intelligently exercise his right to consent or to refuse the treat…” | 3 |
| 4 | Scaria v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance | green | “make such disclosures as appear reasonably necessary under circumstances then existing to enable a reasonable person under the same or similar circumstances confronting the patient at the time of disclosure to intelligently exercise his right to consent or to refuse the treatmen…” | 1 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.