Padwa v. Hadley’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
7 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Moffat v. Branch (2002), Quinn v. Walsh (2000)
7 district · 39 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 Strock v. Pressnell · Schmitz v. Smentowski · Boyle v. Wenk · 332 Pa. Super. 48 - Bartanus v. Lis · Lovelace Medical Center v. Mendez Ex Rel. Mendez
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By characterizing conduct as atrocious and utterly intolerable and beyond all possible bounds of decency, the Restatement sets the threshold at the very highest level for conduct to be considered actionable under the tort of outrage. It recognizes that, as part of the price of personal liberty, a free and democratic society must tolerate certain offensive conduct as well as some obnoxious or morally deviant behavior. Accordingly, the mere fact than an actor knows that his conduct is insulting, or will deeply hurt another’s feelings is insufficient to establish liability ... Accordingly, caution, therefore, is the watchword when examining whether the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress encompasses the facts of a case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he only function of the claim of prima facie tort in [plaintiff's] complaint is to escape possible restrictions imposed on the torts of intentional infliction of emotional distress and interference with entitlement to unemployment compensation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the defendant does more than just intrude into the marriage; he breaches an independent duty of care and loyalty toward the cuckolded spouse.... With out such an independent duty, there is no tort of outrage. 7”
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.