Wornick Co. v. Casas’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 212 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 281 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Randall's Food Markets, Inc. v. Johnson (1995), Rhone-Poulenc, Inc. v. Steel (1999)
18 federal appellate · 212 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, 13th District)
Relationships
Relies on East Line & Red River Railroad v. Scott · Twyman v. Twyman · Boyles v. Kerr · Winters v. Houston Chronicle Publishing Co. · Diamond Shamrock Refining & Marketing Co. v. Mendez
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 281 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Recognition of a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress in a workplace environment has usually been limited to cases involving a pattern of deliberate, repeated harassment over a period of time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.