Girard v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 6 Cal. 4th 965 - Potter v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1993), 230 Cal. App. 3d 1125 - Mangini v. Aerojet-General Corp. (1991)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 11 Cal. 3d 1 - D'AMICO v. Board of Medical Examiners · 2 Cal. 3d 493 - Alcorn v. Anbro Engineering, Inc. · 10 Cal. App. 3d 376 - Fletcher v. Western National Life Insurance · Seeger v. Odell · 38 Cal. 2d 330 - State Rubbish Collectors Ass'n v. Siliznoff
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`emotional distress of such substantial quality or enduring quality that no reasonable [person] in civilized society should be expected to endure it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“( Christensen, supra, 54 Cal.3d at p. 903.) Severe emotional distress means”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.