Young v. Stensrude’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2015
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Michel v. United States · Bass v. Nooney Co. · Shapiro v. Columbia Union National Bank & Trust Co. · Pretsky v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company · Coggburn v. Watts
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The dispositive question, therefore, is whether the pleaded acts of showing a pornographic movie to an unsuspecting female in a room with five men while making obscene remarks to her could ever rise to extreme or outrageous conduct or create an unreasonable risk of inflicting the requisite harm. To answer the question in the negative is to subject this plaintiff, as a matter of law, to unwilling exposure to acts which may be totally intolerable in today's civilized society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... we cannot say, ..., ... these [alleged] acts could not as a matter of law, constitute an actionable wrong. [To do otherwise] would subject, [the] plaintiff, as a matter of law, to unwilling exposure to acts which may be totally intolerable in today’s civilized society. Id. at 265 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boes v. Deschu
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.