569 So. 2d 350 - Allen v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Gottshall (1994), Castano v. American Tobacco Co. (1996)
3 federal appellate · 12 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 · 475 So. 2d 539 - Turner v. Systems Fuel, Inc. · Busby v. Truswal Systems Corp. · Holcombe v. Whitaker · 565 So. 2d 38 - GREEN TREE ACCEPTANCE v. Standridge
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'an intentional, unlawful offer to touch the person of another in a rude or angry manner under such circumstances as to create in the mind of the party alleging the assault a wellfounded fear of an imminent battery, coupled with the apparent present ability to effectuate the attempt, if not prevented.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is no cause of action for the negligent infliction of emotional distress.”
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.