33 N.C. App. 529 - McDowell v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Monroe v. Pape · Robert Leon Jenkins, a Minor, by His Mother and Next Friend, Roberta B. Jenkins v. F. W. Averett · Hostrop v. Board of Junior College District No. 515 · Liles Et Al. v. Oregon
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For a plaintiff to recover for emotional or mental distress in an ordinary negligence case, [s]he must prove that the mental distress was the proximate result of some physical impact with or physical injury to [her]self also resulting from the defendant's negligence. Williamson v. Bennett, 251 N.C. 498 , 112 S.E.2d 48 (1960).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“mere hurt or embarrassment are not compensable,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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