Wambsgans v. Price’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably 567 So. 2d 1081 - Moresi v. State, Dept. of Wildlife & Fisheries (1990), Harsha v. State Savings Bank (1984)
3 federal appellate · 17 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 9 Cal. 3d 566 - Gruenberg v. Aetna Insurance · Meyer v. Nottger · Amsden v. Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. · State v. Blyth · Gibbs Ex Rel. Gibbs v. Wilmeth
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]ental anguish is suffered individually, not jointly, and differs greatly from person to person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Outrageous conduct by the defendant; (2) The defendant’s intentional causing, or reckless disregard of the probability of causing emotional distress; (3) Plaintiff suffering severe or extreme emotional distress; and (4) Actual and proximate causation of the emotional distress by the defendant’s outrageous conduct.”
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.