Cummings v. Pinder’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2012
4 district · 10 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 Gregory v. United States · Levitt v. Bouvier · 57 Md. App. 190 - Finch v. Hughes Aircraft Co. · Maryland Commission on Human Relations v. Greenbelt Homes, Inc. · Jardel Co., Inc. v. Hughes
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.
“[t]he intentional infliction of severe emotional distress may provide the legal predicate for an award of damages, even in the absence of accompanying bodily harm, if such conduct is viewed as outrageous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.