178 N.J. Super. 310 - Hume v. Bayer’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 40 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Hubbard v. United Press International, Inc. (1983), Buckley v. Trenton Saving Fund Society (1988)
6 federal appellate · 40 district · 32 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 Goldberg v. Housing Auth. of City of Newark · Portee v. Jaffee · Berman v. Allan · Caputzal v. Lindsay Co. · Falzone v. Busch
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) One who by extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or recklessly causes severe emotional distress to another is subject to liability for such emotional distress, and if bodily harm to the other results from it, for such bodily harm. (2) Where such conduct is directed at a third person, the actor is subject to liability if he intentionally or recklessly causes severe emotional distress (a) to a member of such person’s immediate family who is present at the time, whether or not such distress results in bodily harm, or (b) to any other person who is present at the time, if such distress results in bodily harm.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“suffering from a rare disease which may be cancerous knowing that the child has nothing more than a mildly infected appendix,”
2 later decisions 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.