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392 F. Supp. 2d 939 - Chesher v. Neyer’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Street v. Jc Bradford & Company · Paugh v. Hanks

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

  1. “Ultimately, the Court concludes that determining whether Plaintiffs’ injuries ■were “serious” is a question best determined on a case-by-case basis. Furthermore, it concludes that although the Plaintiffs’ level of emotional distress must.be “serious,” “seriousness” in the context of a mishandled corpse is something unique. It is something that renders a reasonably constituted person “unable to cope adequately” given the distress, but it need not be “severe and debilitating” in the traditional sense.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[a]s the above quotation from the Court's earlier Order clearly states, the Court relied upon the exceptions found at . . . 2744.03[A] (6)(a & b) to find the . . . individual County Defendants liable for IIED [intentional infliction of emotional distress], NIED [negligent infliction of emotional distress], and Civil Conspiracy.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “governmental function” will necessarily involve judicial interpretation. Id. See O.R.C. § 2744.01(C)(1) and § 2744.01(G)(1), defining”
    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.