25 Cal. 3d 932 - Agarwal v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 21 district · 432 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 639 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 43 Cal. 3d 1379 - Dyna-Med, Inc. v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission (1987), 8 Cal. 4th 548 - Soule v. General Motors Corp. (1994)
78 federal appellate · 21 district · 432 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Crisci v. Security Insurance · 10 Cal. App. 3d 376 - Fletcher v. Western National Life Insurance · 15 Cal. 3d 791 - Slater v. Blackwood
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 639 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The modern rule [defining outrageous conduct] is that there is liability for conduct exceeding all bounds usually tolerated by a decent society, of a nature which is especially calculated to cause, and does cause, mental distress. ... Behavior may be considered outrageous if a defendant (1) abuses a relation or position which gives him power to damage the plaintiff’s interest; (2) knows the plaintiff is susceptible to injuries through mental distress; or (3) acts intentionally or unreasonably with the recognition that the acts are likely to result in illness through mental distress.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not final for purposes of res judicata during the pendency of and until the resolution of the appeal.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`exceed[s] all bounds usually tolerated by a decent society'”
5 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.