Howell v. New York Post Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 36 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 834 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Alvarado v. KOB-TV, L.L.C. (2007), Stuto v. Fleishman (1999)
31 federal appellate · 36 district · 24 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 362
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 834 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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 society.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) extreme and outrageous conduct; (2) intent to cause, or reckless disregard of a substantial probability of causing severe emotional distress; (3) causal connection between the conduct and injury; and (4) severe emotional distress.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) 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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.