163 Ill. App. 3d 584 - McGrath v. Fahey’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 66 Ill. 2d 85 - Public Finance Corp. v. Davis · 22 Ill. 2d 73 - Knierim v. Izzo · 74 Ill. App. 3d 21 - Sherman v. Field Clinic · 101 Ill. App. 3d 75 - Milton v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co. · Clemmer v. Drovers' National Bank
Most-quoted passages
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“infliction of emotional distress alone is not sufficient to give rise to a cause of action. The emotional distress must be severe. Although flight, horror, grief,, shame, humiliation, worry, etc. may fall within the ambit of the term ‘emotional distress,’ these mental conditions alone are not actionable. The law intervenes only where the distress inflicted is so severe that no reasonable man could be expected to endure it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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