Ryckeley v. Callaway’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Lee v. State Farm Mutual Insurance (2000), Peterson v. Islamic Republic of Iran (2007)
6 district · 56 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 Westview Cemetery, Inc. v. Blanchard · OB-Gyn Associates of Albany v. Littleton · 178 Ga. App. 447 - Sanders v. Brown · 124 Ga. App. 195 - Blanchard v. Westview Cemetery, Inc. · Blanchard v. Westview Cemetery, Inc.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he 'impact rule' states that '[i]n a claim concerning negligent conduct, a recovery for emotional distress is allowed only where there is some impact on the plaintiff, and that impact must be a physical injury[,]'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“even malicious, wilful or wanton conduct will not warrant a recovery for the infliction of emotional distress if the conduct was not directed toward the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[E]ven malicious, wilful or wanton conduct will not warrant a recovery for the infliction of emotional distress if the conduct was not directed toward the plaintiff.... [S]ince there is no evidence in the record of this case to support a finding that appellants' conduct was directed at any of the plaintiffs, the trial court was correct in granting summary judgment to defendants....”
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.