Roberts v. Saylor’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 175 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 232 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Bolden v. PRC Inc. (1994), Moore v. State Bank of Burden (1986)
11 federal appellate · 175 district · 41 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 Dawson v. Associates Financial Services Co. of Kansas, Inc. · Dotson v. McLaughlin · Wiehe v. Kukal · 3 Kan. App. 2d 510 - Young v. Hecht · 1 Kan. App. 2d 213 - Bradshaw v. Swagerty
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 232 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Conduct to be a sufficient basis for an action to recover for emotional distress must be outrageous to the point that it goes beyond the bounds of decency and is utterly intolerable in a civilized society.'”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.