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6 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 93 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 Jaffee v. Redmond.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jaffee v. Redmond Anchor | green | “confidential communications between a licensed psychotherapist and her patients in the course of diagnosis or treatment are protected from compelled disclosure under rule 501 of the federal rules of evidence.” | 37 |
| 2 | Jane Doe, and Jane Roe and Jane Roe 2, Proposed-Intervenors-Appellants v. Oberweis Dairy | green | “if a plaintiff by seeking damages for emotional distress places his or her psychological state in issue, the defendant is entitled to discover any records of that state.” | 25 |
| 3 | Jaffee v. Redmond | green | “making the promise of confidentiality contingent upon a trial judge's later evaluation of the relative importance of the patient's interest in privacy and the evidentiary need for disclosure would eviscerate the effectiveness of the privilege.” | 19 |
| 4 | Jaffee v. Redmond | green | “we do not doubt that there are situations in which the privilege must give way, for example, if a serious threat of harm to the patient or to others can be averted only by means of a disclosure by the therapist.” | 7 |
| 5 | Simon v. Cook | green | “placing one's mental health at issue constitutes waiver of the privilege.” | 3 |
| 6 | Flowers v. Owens | green | “any resulting symptoms or conditions that the plaintiff might have suffered,” | 2 |
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.