Whitsel v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Hoard v. Shawnee Mission Medical Center (1983), Bowman v. Doherty (1984)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 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 Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Hayter · Lonergan v. William Small & Co. · Shelton v. Bornt
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff is seeking to enforce a civil liability for the consequences of the wrong, and the general rule is that a wrongdoer is liable in damages for injuries which are the natural and reasonable consequences of his wrongful act, whatever name may be fittingly applied to the wrong.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is a conflict in the authorities in regard to whether there can be a recovery for physical injuries resulting from fright where the act causing the fright was merely negligent and not willful, and differences of opinion as to what constitutes a physical injury, and whether certain injuries can be regarded as the proximate result of the negligence which caused the fright; but the great weight of authority is that if the bodily injury is the direct and reasonable consequence of the fright caused by the negligence a recovery may be had although the negligence may have been unintentional.” (Citing au-. thorities.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“You are fooling with the wrong person this time.”
1 later decision 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.