Tanner v. Hartog’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2018
1 district · 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 Johnson v. Ruark Obstetrics & Gynecology Associates, P.A. · Cason v. Baskin · Giardina v. Bennett · Kush v. Lloyd · 618 So. 2d 177 - Tanner v. Hartog
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.
“It is difficult to justify the outright denial of a claim for the mental pain and anguish which is so likely to be experienced.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“consequence of conduct that itself is a freestanding tort apart from any emotional injury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he impact rule requires that before a plaintiff can recover damages for emotional distress caused by the negligence of another, the emotional stress suffered must flow from physical injuries the plaintiff sustained in an impact.”
3 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.