Davis v. Texaco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Buckley v. Trenton Saving Fund Society (1988), Nichols v. Busse (1993)
4 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 85 Wis. 2d 675 - Anderson v. Continental Insurance · Meyer v. Nottger · Vicnire v. Ford Motor Credit Co. · Paasch v. Brown
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`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.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carlson v. Chain“[t]he law intervenes only where the distress inflicted is so severe that no reasonable man could be expected to endure it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pankratz v. Willis“`[T]he conduct necessary to support such a claim [must exceed]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carlson v. Chain
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.