Thorpe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Hansen v. Mountain Fuel Supply Co. (1993), Morancy v. Morancy (1991)
4 federal appellate · 21 district · 18 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 Carson v. Maurer · Corso v. Merrill · Daley v. LaCroix · Chiuchiolo v. New England Wholesale Tailors · United States Coast Guard Vessel Cg-95321
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when damages for impact are not sought [in a negligence case], expert testimony is required to prove that the plaintiff experienced physical symptoms from the alleged emotional distress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pichowicz v. Hoyt“[B]efore a plaintiff can recover damages for emotional distress pursuant to a negligence cause of action, he or she must prove that physical injury resulted therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The general rule in medical malpractice cases is that the proximate cause between the negligence and the injury must be established through expert testimony.”
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.