Boyles v. Kerr’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 210 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 272 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Gottshall (1994), Transportation Insurance Co. v. Moriel (1994)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 210 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana))
Relationships
Relies on Dillon v. Legg · 27 Cal. 3d 916 - Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · 48 Cal. 3d 644 - Thing v. La Chusa · Montinieri v. Southern New England Telephone, Co. · Payton v. Abbott Labs
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 272 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The plaintiff was located near the scene of the accident, as contrasted with one who was a distance away from it; (2) The plaintiff suffered shock as a result of a direct emotional impact upon the plaintiff from a sensory and contemporaneous observance of the accident, as contrasted with learning of the accident from others after its occurrence; and (3) The plaintiff and the victim were closely related, as contrasted with an absence of any relationship or the presence of only a distant relationship.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[e]very fact will be supplied that can be reasonably inferred from what is specifically stated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[In overruling language in Garrard,] [w]e [] are not imposing a requirement that emotional distress manifest itself physically to be compensable_ Where emotional distress is a recognized element of damages for breach of a legal duty, the claimant may recover without demonstrating a physical manifestation of the emotional distress. This has long been the rule, even before Garrard.”
2 later decisions 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.