High v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Miller v. Currie (1995), Gallimore v. Children's Hospital Medical Center (1993)
3 federal appellate · 70 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 Paugh v. Hanks · 19 Cal. 3d 441 - Borer v. American Airlines, Inc. · Bowen v. Kil-Kare, Inc. · Ferriter v. Daniel O'Connell's Sons, Inc. · 117 Wis. 2d 508 - Theama v. City of Kenosha
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the absence of statutory provision therefor, Ohio courts have limited recovery for negligent infliction of emotional distress to such instances as where one was a bystander to an accident or was in fear of physical consequences to his own person. Paugh v. Hanks (1983), 6 Ohio St.3d 72 , 6 OBR 114, 451 N.E.2d 759 ; Criswell v. Brentwood Hosp. (1989), 49 Ohio App.3d 163 , 551 N.E.2d 1315 .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“the General Assembly may create a new cause of action for loss of parental consortium in cases where a parent is injured but survives the negligent or intentional conduct of a third-party tortfeasor. There is no better example of an issue that should be determined by the legislative process where arguments in support of and opposed to the proposed remedy may be fully aired and debated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If Missouri is to recognize a cause of action for loss of consortium by the children or the parents of an injured party, the decision to do so should be made by the legislature and not by this Court.”
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.