Wright v. Sparrow’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2016
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Todd v. South Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance · Todd v. SC FARM BUREAU MUTUAL INS. CO. · Rycroft v. Gaddy · Corder v. Champion Road MacHinery International Corp. · Bell v. Bank of Abbeville
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant intentionally or recklessly inflicted severe emotional distress or was certain or substantially certain that such distress would result from his conduct; (2) the conduct was so “extreme and outrageous” as to exceed “all possible bounds of decency” and must be regarded as “atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community”; (3) the actions of the defendant caused the plaintiffs emotional distress; and (4) the emotional distressed suffered by the plaintiff was “severe” so that “no reasonable man could be expected to endure it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“hostile or abusive encounters or coercive or oppressive abuse”
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.