Almy v. Grisham’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 9 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Schmidt v. Household Finance Corp., II (2008), Supervalu, Inc. v. Johnson (2008)
6 federal appellate · 9 district · 43 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 Womack v. Eldridge · CaterCorp, Inc. v. Catering Concepts, Inc. · Russo v. White · Fun v. Virginia Military Institute · Commercial Business Systems, Inc. v. BellSouth Services, 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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the wrongdoer's conduct was intentional or reckless ; 2) the conduct was outrageous or intolerable; 3) there was a causal connection between the wrongdoer's conduct and the resulting emotional distress; and 4) the resulting emotional distress was severe.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a common law claim of civil conspiracy generally requires proof that the underlying tort was committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sines v. Kessler · Gelber v. Glock“The 'unlawful act' element requires that a member of the alleged conspiracy have 'committed' an 'underlying tort.' "). Additionally, the plaintiff must suffer an injury from the tort: "The gist of the civil action of conspiracy is the damage caused by the acts committed in pursuance of the formed conspiracy and not the mere combination of two or more persons to accomplish an unlawful purpose or use unlawful means.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sines v. Kessler
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.