398 Pa. Super. 166 - Herr v. Booten’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2015
18 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 281 Pa. Super. 560 - Yaindl v. Ingersoll-Rand Co. Standard Pump-Aldrich Division · Carrender v. Fitterer · Firing v. Kephart · Congini by Congini v. PORTERSVILLE ETC. · Stout v. Commonwealth ex rel. Preate
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Implicit in the tort of battery is the recognition that an individual has a right to be free from unwanted and offensive or harmful intrusions upon his own body. The tort of battery has traditionally been employed to redress this precise grievance. The essence of the tort “consists in the offense to the dignity involved in the unpermitted and intentional invasion of the inviolability of [the plaintiffs] person....” Thus, the Restatement recognizes that an intrusion upon the plaintiffs physical or personal dignity does occur where the defendant “throws a substance, such as water, upon the [plaintiff] or if [the defendant] sets a dog upon him” even though the defendant and plaintiff have not physically touched each other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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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.