Simon v. Solomon’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 27 district · 213 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 262 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Anthony's Pier Four, Inc. v. HBC ASSOCIATES (1991), Payton v. Abbott Labs (1982)
10 federal appellate · 27 district · 213 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 Morissette v. United States · United States v. Dotterweich · Lambert v. People of the State of California · 27 Cal. 3d 916 - Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Agis v. Howard Johnson 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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the actor intended to inflict emotional distress or that he knew or should have known that emotional distress was the likely result of his conduct; ... (2) that the conduct was 'extreme and outrageous' ...; (3) that the actions of the defendant were the cause of the plaintiff's distress; ... and (4) that the emotional distress sustained by the plaintiff was 'severe'....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any lessor or landlord of any building or part thereof occupied for dwelling purposes ... who willfully or intentionally fails to furnish such water, hot water, heat, light, power, gas, elevator service, telephone service, janitor service or refrigeration service at any time when the same is necessary to the proper or customary use of such building or part thereof,... or who transfers the responsibility for payment for any utility services to the occupant without his knowledge or consent.... shall also be liable for actual and consequential damages or three months’ rent. whichever is greater, and the costs of the action, including a reasonable attorney’s fee... [emphasis supplied].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a] statutory fee award should not cover effort expended on independent claims that happen to be joined with statutory claims in a single proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.