Ross v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Faulkner v. Arkansas Children's Hospital (2002), Deitsch v. Tillery (1992)
7 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 MBM Co., Inc. v. Counce · Sterling Drug, Inc. v. Oxford · Tandy Corp. v. Bone · Givens v. Hixson · Schiro v. Indiana
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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 civilized society.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a very narrow view of claims for the tort of outrage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In contrast, where an employer interrogated an employee, whom it suspected of theft, at thirty minute intervals for most of a day, denied him valium when he was under obvious stress, and threatened him with arrest, we found that there was substantial evidence to support the jury verdict for outrage and placed special emphasis on the fact that even though the employer knew of the employee’s lower than normal emotional stamina, it refused to permit him to take his medication during the interrogation. [Tandy Corp. v. Bone, 283 Ark. 399 , 678 S.W.2d 312 (1984)]. In Hess v. Treece, 286 Ark. 434 , 693 S.W.2d 792 (1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1036 , 106 S.Ct. 1245 , 89 L.Ed.2d 354 (1986), Treece, a police officer, sued Hess, the Little Rock City Director, for outrage. Hess, who was angry with Treece over a personal matter, conducted surveillance of Treece, communicated to other individuals that he would have Treece fired at any cost, and apparently made false reports concerning Treece’s employment conduct. Basing our decision in part on the fact that Hess’s actions continued over a two year time span, we found substantial evidence to support the jury verdict for outrage. We also found sufficient evidence to support a finding that corporations operating a perpetual care cemetery had committed the tort of outrage where the corporations’ agents had repeatedly driven heavy equipment across two gravesites of members of the appellees’ family in an attempt to alleviate a drainage problem ”
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.