Cullison v. Medley’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 171 Ind. App. 315 - Charlie Stuart Oldsmobile, Inc. v. Smith · 119 Ind. App. 643 - Continental Optical Co. v. Reed · Baker v. American States Insurance · FMC Corp. v. Brown · 175 Ind. App. 1 - Charlie Stuart Oldsmobile, Inc. v. Smith
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is that absent physical injury, mental anguish is speculative, subject to exaggeration, likely to lead to fictitious claims, and often so unforeseeable that there is no rational basis for awarding damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Indiana courts have awarded compensatory damages for mental anguish unaccompanied by a physical injury in certain tort actions involving the invasion of a legal right which by its very nature is likely to provoke an emotional disturbance.”
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.