Charles v. Kender’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Schwartz v. Travelers Indemnity Co. (2001), Pierce v. Physicians Insurance Co. of Wisconsin, Inc. (2005)
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 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 Payton v. Abbott Labs · Choate, Hall & Stewart v. SCA Services, Inc. · Stewart v. Rudner · Sullivan v. O'CONNOR · Flattery v. Gregory
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When physical injury results, the promi-sor may fairly be held to anticipate related emotional suffering. When no physical injury results and the facts are devoid of harmful intent, emotional distress is best written off as among the shocks and counter shocks of life which the law does not seek to remedy.”
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.