Watts v. Lyon County Ambulance Service

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that a “plaintiff cannot proceed on an IIED claim where the alleged conduct makes out a claim for another tort for which emotional distress damages would be available” (citations omitted)
• explaining that a “plaintiff cannot proceed on an IIED claim where the alleged conduct makes out a claim for another tort for which emotional distress damages would be available” (citations omitted)
• explaining that a “plaintiff cannot proceed on an IIED claim where the alleged conduct makes out a claim for another tort for which emotional distress damages would be available” (citations omitted)
• “To the extent the basis for this claim [wrongful discharge in violation of public policy] is the same as that for his Title VII and KCRA claims, it is preempted and subsumed by those more specific laws.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Bader v. United Airlines, Inc.
  N.D. Illinois· 2015-07-09· cited 2×

Cites

47 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-26· cited 58,760×
• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-11-09· cited 8,430×
• Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-19· cited 5,248×
• Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-04· cited 3,700×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 94,768 Phil A. Street and Clyde H. Street v. J.C. Bradford & Company
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-05-25· cited 2,773×
• Roger Monette and Doris Monette v. Electronic Data Systems Corporation
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-07-30· cited 740×
• Ronald A. Landefeld v. Marion General Hospital, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 1993-05-18· cited 563×
• Intera Corporation v. George Henderson III
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-11-10· cited 549×
• Cornelius Wright v. Murray Guard, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-07-26· cited 441×
• Arendale v. City of Memphis
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-03-20· cited 431×
• Hartsel v. Keys
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-06-26· cited 358×
• Lewis v. Humboldt Acquisition Corp., Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-05-25· cited 357×
• Leisure Caviar, LLC v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service
  Sixth Circuit· 2010-08-19· cited 340×
• Thomas E. Sutherland v. Michigan Department of Treasury
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-11-25· cited 249×
• Grace v. USCAR
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-03-26· cited 225×
• Gail E. ABEITA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TRANSAMERICA MAILINGS, INC., Et Al., Defendants-Appellees
  Sixth Circuit· 1998-12-23· cited 209×
• Grzyb v. Evans
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1985-12-19· cited 207×
• Firestone Textile Co. Division v. Meadows
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1983-11-23· cited 196×