Rowe v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably 48 Cal. 3d 583 - Marlene F. v. Affiliated Psychiatric Medical Clinic, Inc. (1989), 143 Ill. 2d 296 - Corgan v. Muehling (1991)
7 district · 26 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 In Re B. · Vicnire v. Ford Motor Credit Co. · Wallace v. Coca-Cola Bottling Plants, Inc. · Culbert v. Sampson's Supermarkets Inc. · Packard v. Central Maine Power 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one, that the defendant was negligent, that is that the defendant acted or failed to act in a manner which a reasonably prudent person or corporation would act in the management of their affairs taMng into account all of the circumstances of this case; two, that emotional distress to the plaintiff was a reasonably foreseeable result of the defendant’s negligent act; and, three, that the plaintiff suffered serious emotional distress as a result of the defendant’s negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a reasonable person, normally constituted, would be unable to adequately cope with the mental stress engendered by the circumstances of the event.” Rowe v. Bennett, 514 A.2d 802, 805 (Me.1986). The reasonable person is the ordinarily sensitive person and not the supersensi-tive,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Salley v. Childs
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.