Spackman v. Good’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2018
18 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 22 Ill. 2d 73 - Knierim v. Izzo · 59 Cal. 2d 295 - Amaya v. Home Ice, Fuel & Supply Co. · 38 Cal. 2d 330 - State Rubbish Collectors Ass'n v. Siliznoff · 11 Utah 2d 289 - Samms v. Eccles · 21 Wis. 2d 349 - Alsteen v. Gehl
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who by extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or recklessly causes severe emotional distress to another is subject to liability for such emotional distress....”
1 later decision 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.