Stadler v. Cross

How courts have described this case

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• holding uninjured bystanders outside zone of danger cannot recover
• criticizing alternative indicators of reliability such as familial relationships and proximity to the accident
• defendant liable for negligent infliction of emotional distress only to people within zone of danger of physical injury
• in applying zone of danger test, plaintiff can be asked whether fear was for himself or another
• parents who, from a few yards away, watched child get hit by car not in \zone of danger of physical impact\
• mother who was a few yards from the road where her child was struck by a car was not within the zone of danger and could not recover for her emotional distress

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).