Marzolf v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Berger v. Sonneland (2001), Kloepfel v. Bokor (2003)
3 federal appellate · 38 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 Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Gottshall · Paugh v. Hanks · 122 Wash. 2d 299 - Washington State Physicians Insurance Exchange & Ass'n v. Fisons Corp. · Clohessy v. Bachelor · 39 Cal. 3d 159 - Ochoa v. Superior Court
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[t]he kind of shock the tort requires is the result of the immediate aftermath of an accident.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]o satisfy the objective symptomology requirement established in Hunsley, a plaintiff's emotional distress must be susceptible to medical diagnosis and proved through medical evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A bright-line rule that limits recovery for emotional distress to those who witnessed the accident is attractive in its simplicity. However, it draws an arbitrary line that serves to exclude plaintiffs without meaningful distinction. The emotional trauma caused by seeing a loved one injured at an accident scene stems not merely from witnessing the transition from health to injury but also from witnessing the aftermath of an accident in all its alarming detail.[ 8 ]”
3 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.