Sheltra v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
19 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Petyan v. Ellis (1986), Twyman v. Twyman (1993)
19 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Conley v. Gibson · Agis v. Howard Johnson Co. · 10 Cal. App. 3d 376 - Fletcher v. Western National Life Insurance · 5 E.H. Smith 107 - Mitchell v. . Rochester Railway Co. · 11 Utah 2d 289 - Samms v. Eccles
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ojutrageous conduct, done intentionally or with reckless disregard of the probability of causing emotional distress, resulting in the suffering of extreme emotional distress, actually or proximately caused by the outrageous conduct.”
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.