Meyer v. Nottger’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Smith v. Wade (1983), Stanback v. Stanback (1979)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 68 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 22 Ill. 2d 73 - Knierim v. Izzo · 32 Cal. 2d 480 - Chelini v. Nieri · Stewart v. Rudner · Northrup v. Miles Homes, Inc. of Iowa · Lamm v. Shingleton
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he tort law should encourage a certain level of emotional toughness. “The rough edges of our society are still in need of a good deal of filing down, and in the meantime plaintiffs must necessarily be expected and required to be hardened to a certain amount of rough language, and to occasional acts that are definitely inconsiderate and unkind.” Restatement (Second) of Torts § 46, comment d, supra. “Against a large part of the frictions and irritations and clashing of temperaments incident to participation in a community life, a certain toughening of the mental hide is a better protection than the law could ever be.” Magruder, Mental and Emotional Disturbance in the Law of Torts, 49 Harv.L.Rev. 1033, 1035 (1936).”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) outrageous conduct by defendant; (2) defendant's intentional causing, or reckless disregard of probability of causing emotional distress; (3) plaintiff suffering severe or extreme emotional distress; and (4) actual and proximate causation of the emotional distress by the defendant's conduct.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. Olds · Ruple v. Brooks“[w]e have recognized recovery for emotional distress damages in actions which did not involve an intentional tort when a party negligently performed an act which was “so coupled with matters of mental concern or solicitude, or with the sensibilities of the party to whom the duty is owed, that a breach of that duty will necessarily or reasonably result in mental anguish or suffering, and it should be known to the parties from the nature of the [obligation] that such suffering will result from its breach.””
2 later decisions 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.