48 Wash. App. 38 - Cunningham v. Lockard’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably 556 So. 2d 559 - Lejeune v. Rayne Branch Hosp. (1990), Marzolf v. Stone (1998)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Linkletter v. Walker · 103 Wash. 2d 768 - Hartley v. State · Rodrigues v. State · 85 Wash. 2d 52 - Grimsby v. Samson · 87 Wash. 2d 424 - Hunsley v. Giard
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause his [Daley's] emotional injuries flow directly from the same act that caused his physical injuries, there is no apparent reason to deny recovery for the emotional injuries. ... The law permits recovery by "plaintiffs who are actually placed in peril by the defendant's negligent conduct and [by] family members present at the time who fear for the one imperiled."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he decision subjects defendants to potentially unlimited liability to virtually anyone who suffers physical manifestations of emotional distress ... Because of this virtually unlimited liability, a boundary establishing the class of persons who can sue must be drawn.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marzolf v. Stone“a boundary establishing the class of persons who can sue must be drawn.”
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.