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553 So. 2d 567 - Harris v. McDavid’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
August 2015
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2015

1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

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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 American Road Serv. Co. v. Inmon · McIsaac v. WZEW-FM CORP. · 484 So. 2d 1084 - Russellville Production Credit Ass'n v. Frost · 415 So. 2d 1098 - U.S.A. Oil, Inc. v. Smith · 415 So. 2d 1102 - Johnson v. Johnson

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

  1. “so outrageous in character and so extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society.”
    5 later decisions 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.