560 So. 2d 1038 - Bailey v. Avera’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2015
23 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 American Road Serv. Co. v. Inmon · 451 So. 2d 257 - Barrett v. Farmers & Merchants Bank · 375 So. 2d 1063 - Gavin v. Hinrichs
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Extreme conduct' is defined as conduct 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. The extreme conduct must result in emotional distress so severe that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[T]he standard of review applicable to a directed verdict would be whether the nonmoving party had presented substantial evidence in support of his position. If he had not, then a directed verdict would be proper.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cotter v. Harris“by extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or recklessly”
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.