148 Or. App. 607 - Curtis v. MRI IMAGING SERVICES II’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2011
8 district · 2 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here ... plaintiff did not suffer mental distress as a secondary consequence of some economic loss occasioned by defendants’ negligence. That is, this is not a case in which defendants’ negligence caused economic loss that, in turn, generated emotional distress. Rather, plaintiffs psychic distress, as alleged, was the direct consequence of plaintiffs physical confinement and the concomitant violation of his psychic integrity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the identification of such a distinct source of duty is the sine qua non of liability for emotional distress damages unaccompanied by physical injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lockett v. Hill
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.