Henry v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 6 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]n any action for the breach of an obligation not . arising from contract, where the defendant has been guilty of oppression, fraud, or malice, actual or presumed, or in any case of wrongful injury to animals, being subjects of property, committed intentionally or by willful and wanton misconduct, in disregard of humanity[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stabler v. First State Bank of Roscoe

2. “(1) extreme and outrageous conduct by the defendant; (2) the defendant intended to cause severe emotional distress; (3) defendant’s conduct was the cause in-fact of plaintiffs severe emotional distress; and (4) the plaintiff suffered an extreme disabling emotional response to defendant’s conduct.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 906 F. Supp. 2d 909 - Paulsen v. Ability Insurance