332 Pa. Super. 48 - Bartanus v. Lis’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 351 Pa. Super. 264 - Burnside v. Abbott Laboratories (1985), Wisniewski v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1987)
7 federal appellate · 102 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
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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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 46. Outrageous Conduct Causing Severe Emotional Distress (1) One who by extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or recklessly causes severe emotional distress to another is subject to liability for such emotional distress, and if bodily harm to the other results from it, for such bodily harm.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““In considering preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer, the' question presented is whether, on the facts averred, the law says with certainty that no recovery is possible. (Citation omitted.) A demurrer- admits every well-pleaded material fact set forth in the complaint, as well as all inferences reasonably deducible therefrom, but not conclusions of law. (Citations omitted.) The law does not provide a ‘magic formula’ to ■ determine the sufficiency of a plaintiff’s complaint; however, the law is clear that a demurrer can only be' sustained in a case free from doubt.' (Citations omitted.)” Bartanus v. Lis, 332 Pa. Super. 48, 52-53 , 480 A.2d 1178, 1180 (1984).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Liability has been found only where the conduct has been 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 community. Generally, the case is one in which the recitation of the facts to an average member of the community would arouse his resentment against the actor, and lead him to exclaim, “Outrageous!””
3 later decisions 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.