Raftery v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
756 F.2d 335 · 1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably McIntyre v. McIntyre (1985), 41 Conn. Super. Ct. 519 - Whelan v. Whelan (1991)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Womack v. Eldridge · Smith v. Kauffman · Worrell v. Worrell · Cole v. Cole · Wasserman v. Wasserman
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the adjustment of family status or establishing familial duties or determining the existence of a breach of such duties does not contravene the domestic relations exception to federal diversity jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must establish that the tort-feasor's conduct is outrageous and intolerable, the wrongful conduct and the emotional distress are causally connected and the emotional distress is severe.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the elements of the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress, and some of its policy considerations, are different from those in an alienation claim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.