Robinson v. Vitro Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2014
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Burnett v. Grattan · White v. Morgan · Harris v. Jones · Phoenix Savings & Loan, Inc. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he tort of assault is designed to protect a person’s interests to be free from apprehension of intentional physical contact. On the other hand, the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress was recognized to protect persons from any extreme and outrageous conduct calculated to cause serious mental distress. The interests being protected are thus distinct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Saunders v. Nemati
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.