11 Utah 2d 289 - Samms v. Eccles’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 28 district · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Agis v. Howard Johnson Co. (1976), Womack v. Eldridge (1974)
6 federal appellate · 28 district · 115 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Craker v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · De Wolf v. . Ford · Boyce v. . Greeley Square Hotel Co. · Savage v. Boies · Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Roch
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) with the purpose of inflicting emotional distress, or, (b) where any reasonable person would have known that such would result; and his actions are of such a nature as to be considered outrageous and intolerable in that they offend against the generally accepted standards of decency and morality.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage“[d]ue to the highly subjective and volatile nature of emotional distress and the variability of its causations, the courts have historically been wary of dangers in opening the door to recovery therefor. This is partly because such claims may easily be fabricated: or as sometimes stated, are easy to assert and hard to defend against.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is * * * to be observed that the argument against allowing such an action because groundless charges may be made is not a good reason for denying recovery. If the right to recover for injury resulting from the wrongful conduct could be defeated whenever such dangers exist, many of the grievances the law deals with would be eliminated. That some claims may be spurious should not compel those who administer justice to shut their eyes to serious wrongs * * *. It is the function of courts and juries to determine whether claims are valid or false. This responsibility should not be shunned merely because the task may be difficult to perform.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Rogers · G v. P.
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.