Boes v. Deschu’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2012
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Pretsky v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company · Hester v. Barnett · Bennett v. Mallinckrodt, Inc. · State Ex Inf. Ashcroft v. Kansas City Firefighters Local No. 42
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct can be found in Missouri law. Boes v. Beschu, 768 S.W.2d 205, 207 (Mo.Ct.App.1989). For conduct to be actionable, it must be: so outrageous in character, and so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community. Generally, the case is one in which the recitation of facts to an average member of the community would arouse his resentment against the actor, and lead him to exclaim,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The extreme and outrageous character of the conduct may arise from an abuse by the actor of a position, or a relation with the other, which gives him actual or apparent authority over the other, or power to affect his interests....”
1 later decision 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.