Hensley v. Heavrin’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
March 2008
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Toone v. Adams · Kennedy v. Custom Ice Equipment Co., Inc. · Foreman v. Atlantic Land Corp. · Stalheim v. Doskocil
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he question of whether the action of appellant [in incorrectly diagnosing venereal disease] was of such an extreme and outrageous nature as to constitute the tort of mental distress is a question of fact to be determined by the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.