Motsenbocker v. Potts’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 193rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Cain v. Bain · Kindred v. Con/Chem, Inc. · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Scharrenbeck · Twyman v. Twyman · Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. DeLanney
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] relatively high degree of mental pain and distress; it is more than mere disappointment, anger, resentment, or embarrassment, although it may include all of these, and it includes mental sensation of pain resulting from such painful emotions as grief, severe disappointment, indignation, wounded pride, shame, despair and/or public humiliation. 28”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McLure v. Tiller“so severe that no reasonable [person] could be expected to endure it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“so severe that no reasonable man could be expected to endure it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hart v. O'Brien
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.