King v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably State v. Boone (1982), 88 N.C. App. 484 - Blow v. Shaughnessy (1988)
40 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 Williamson v. Bennett · King v. Britt · Overton v. Overton · Mintz v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Dinkins v. Booe
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is almost the universal opinion that recovery may be had for mental or emotional disturbance in ordinary negligence cases where, coincident in time and place with the occurrence producing the mental stress, some actual physical impact or genuine physical injury also resulted directly from defendant’s negligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A requested instruction which is not, in its entirety, a correct statement of the law applicable to the evidence may be refused, the court being under no duty to modify or qualify it so as to remedy the defect therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is not required to charge the jury in the precise language of the request so long as the substance of the request is included in the language.”
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.