Tandy Corp. v. Bone’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Sterling Drug, Inc. v. Oxford (1988), Manning v. Metropolitan Life Insurance (1997)
12 federal appellate · 68 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 MBM Co., Inc. v. Counce · Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Herring · Givens v. Hixson · 382 So. 2d 150 - Food Fair, Inc. v. Anderson · Growth Properties I v. Cannon
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct that is 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 society.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e emphasize that the notice to the employer of Bone's condition is the only basis for a jury question of extreme outrage.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“open the doors of the courts to every slight insult or indignity one must endure in life.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hollomon v. Keadle · Hess v. Treece
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.