Harris v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 175 district · 183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 409 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Petyan v. Ellis (1986), Snyder v. Phelps (2011)
19 federal appellate · 175 district · 183 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 2 Cal. 3d 493 - Alcorn v. Anbro Engineering, Inc. · 10 Cal. App. 3d 376 - Fletcher v. Western National Life Insurance · Womack v. Eldridge · 22 Ill. 2d 73 - Knierim v. Izzo · Rugg v. McCarty
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 409 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The conduct must be intentional or reckless; (2) The conduct must be extreme and outrageous; (3) There must be a causal connection between the wrongful conduct and the emotional distress; (4) The emotional distress must be severe.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'only where the conduct has been so outrageous in character, and so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`mere insults, indignities, threats, annoyances, petty oppressions, or other trivialities.'”
9 later decisions 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.