Henricksen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Sunburst School District No. 2 v. Texaco, Inc. (2007), Fisher v. Swift Transportation Co. (2008)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 74 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 Sacco v. High Country Independent Press, Inc. · Miller v. Fairchild Industries, Inc. · Newville v. State, Dept. of Family Services · Maloney v. Home and Investment Center, Inc. · Estate of Strever v. Cline
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In cases where there is a physical manifestation of bodily harm resulting from emotional distress, such as PTSD, this bodily harm is sufficient evidence that the emotional distress suffered by the plaintiff is genuine and severe. As explained in the Restatement 2nd of Torts, § 46, comment k, ‘[n]ormally, severe emotional distress is accompanied or followed by shock, illness, or other bodily harm, which in itself affords evidence that the distress is genuine and severe.’ (Emphasis inoriginal.) This manifestation assures that only genuine harm, not fraudulent claims, will be compensated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“under M.R. Civ. P. 37(d). I conclude the District Court did not abuse its discretion in excluding Texaco's experts without first affording a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A negligence action has four elements: (1) duty; (2) breach of duty; (3) causation; and (4) damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simpkins v. Speck
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.