Morrison v. Means’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 799 So. 2d 1 - Whitten v. Cox (2000), 744 So. 2d 736 - Adams v. US Homecrafters, Inc. (1999)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 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 662 So. 2d 648 - Leaf River Forest Products, Inc. v. Ferguson · Universal Life Ins. Co. v. Veasley · 405 So. 2d 898 - Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Devers · 500 So. 2d 439 - Royal Oil Co., Inc. v. Wells · 589 So. 2d 1268 - Strickland v. Rossini
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the standard is whether the defendant's behavior is malicious, intentional, willful, wanton, grossly careless, indifferent or reckless.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where there is something about the defendant's conduct which evokes outrage or revulsion, done intentionally-or even unintentionally yet the results being reasonably foreseeable-Courts can in certain circumstances comfortably assess damages for mental and emotional stress, even though there has been no physical injury. In such instances, it is the nature of the act itself-as opposed to the seriousness of the consequences-which gives impetus to legal redress....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f the case [is] one of ordinary garden variety negligence, the plaintiffs would have to prove some sort of injury, whether it be physical or mental. If the conduct was not malicious, intentional or outrageous, there must be some sort of demonstrative harm...”
5 later decisions 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.