Fredeen v. Stride’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Embrey v. Holly (1982), 171 Ind. App. 315 - Charlie Stuart Oldsmobile, Inc. v. Smith (1976)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mental suffering is a proper element of damages where evidence of genuine emotional damage is supplied by aggravated conduct on the part of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * if mental suffering is the direct and natural result of the [tort], the jury may properly consider mental distress as an element of damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sufficiently aggravated violation of societal interests”
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.