Waldon v. Covington’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 65 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Halberstam v. Welch (1983), Buckley v. Trenton Saving Fund Society (1988)
16 federal appellate · 65 district · 40 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 Perini v. Downey · 22 Ill. 2d 73 - Knierim v. Izzo · 38 Cal. 2d 330 - State Rubbish Collectors Ass'n v. Siliznoff · Ross v. Hartman · Lamont v. Haig
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“goes beyond all possible bounds of decency and [is] regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“intentionally or recklessly cause[ ] severe emotional distress”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The summary judgment procedure is properly and wholesomely invoked when it eliminates a useless trial but, of course, not when it would cut a litigant off from his right to have a jury resolve a factual issue bearing significantly on the outcome of the litigation. The party moving for summary judgment bears the burden of demonstrating the absence of a genuine issue as to any material facts, and even where his opponent comes forth with nothing, summary judgment must be denied if the facts supporting the motion do not establish the non-existence of such an issue. Id. at 206-7 . We are mindful on a motion for summary judgment the inferences to be drawn from the factual material before the court must be viewed in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion. But we also recognize that in order to raise a material issue of fact precluding the grant of a properly supported motion for summary judgment, more is necessary than mere assertions in the pleadings. Id. at 208 .”
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.