Kiersey v. Jeffrey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) the actor intended to inflict emotional distress or knew or should have known that emotional distress was the likely result of his conduct; (2) the conduct was extreme and outrageous, was beyond all possible bounds of decency, and was utterly intolerable in a civilized community; (3) the actions of the defendant were the cause of plaintiffs distress; and (4) the emotional distress sustained by the plaintiff was so severe that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 52 F. Supp. 3d 904 - Ratliff v. City of Shannon Hills

2. “the tort of outrage should not and does not open the doors of the courts to every slight insult or indignity one must endure in life.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Holman v. Flores