Strickland v. Madden’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital v. Agbor (1997), Simmons v. Tuomey Regional Medical Center (2000)
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 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 Rayfield Ex Rel. Estate of Rayfield v. South Carolina Department of Corrections · Standard Fire Ins. Co. v. MARINE CONTRACTING AND TOWING COMPANY · 181 Ga. App. 893 - Brown v. Coastal Emergency Services, Inc. · Kinard v. Augusta Sash & Door Co. · Padgett v. Colonial Wholesale Distributing Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he plaintiff must show that: (1) the defendant intentionally or recklessly inflicted severe emotional distress or was certain or substantially certain that such distress would result from his or her conduct; (2) the conduct was so extreme and atrocious as to exceed all possible bounds of decency and must be regarded as outrageous and utterly intolerable in civilized society; (3) the actions of the defendant caused the plaintiffs emotional distress; and (4) the emotional distress suffered by the plaintiff was so severe that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it. Initially, the court determines whether the defendant’s conduct may reasonably be regarded as so extreme and outrageous as to permit recovery, and only if reasonable persons might differ should the question be one for 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.