Worsham v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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. ““Liability has been found only where the conduct has been so outrageous in character, and so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community. Generally, the case is one in which the recitation of the facts to an average member of the community would arouse his resentment against the actor, and lead him to exclaim, ‘Outrageous!’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 2006 OK CIV APP 78 - Warren v. United States Specialty Sports Ass'n

2. “[i]t is not enough to show that a [decedent's] depression was a 'powerful contributor' to the decedent's 'feeling of hopelessness and helplessness.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Moore v. Western Forge Corp.

3. “[decedent] informed his supervisor that he had hired a lawyer and a lawsuit had been or was going to be filed to stop the harassment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Worsham v. Nix