Curtis v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Golden Eagle Archery, Inc. v. Jackson (2003), Samaan v. St. Joseph Hospital (2012)
3 federal appellate · 18 district · 39 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Payton v. Abbott Labs · Mauro v. Raymark Industries, Inc. · Vicnire v. Ford Motor Credit Co. · Raymond Veilleux Kelly Veilleux Peter Kennedy v. National Broadcasting Company Alan Handel Fred Francis Raymond Veilleux Kelly Veilleux Peter Kennedy
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [Defendant Desrosiers] intentionally or recklessly inflicted severe emotional distress or was certain or substantially certain that such distress would result from [his] conduct; (2) the conduct was so extreme and outrageous as to exceed all possible bounds of decency and must be regarded as atrocious, utterly intolerable in a civilized community; (3) the actions of the defendant caused [Plaintiffs] emotional distress; and (4) the emotional distress suffered by [Plaintiff] was so severe that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the defendant owed a duty to the plaintiff; (2) the defendant breached that duty; (3) the plaintiff was harmed; and (4) the breach caused the plaintiffs harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a special relationship exists between the actor and the person emotionally harmed”
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.