Eddy v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Miller v. Miller (1998), Tate v. Browning-Ferris, Inc. (1992)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 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 Harris v. Jones · Hall v. May Department Stores Co. · Breeden v. League Services Corp. · McCormack v. Oklahoma Publishing Co. · Wells v. Thomas
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“utterly intolerable in a civilized community.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“One who by extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or recklessly causes severe emotional distress to another is subject to liability for such emotional distress, and if bodily harm to the other results from it, for such bodily harm.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““Conduct which, though unreasonable, is neither ‘beyond all possible bounds of decency’ in the setting in which it occurred, nor is one that can be ‘regarded as utterly intolerable in a civilized com munity/ falls short of having actionable quality.” 715 P.2d at 77 .”
6 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.