EMERSON GOODMAN, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Sheehan, 373 So. 2d 956 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979)
  …s do two cases from the Third District: Sacco v. Eagle Finance Corp. of Miami Beach, 234 So. 2d 406 (Fla. 3d DCA 1970) and Gellert v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc., 370 So. 2d 802 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979). However, another Third District case, Korbin v. Berlin, 177 So. 2d 551 (Fla. 3d DCA 1965), allowed an action to proceed on behalf of a six-year-old child for severe emotional distress against a defendant who allegedly accused the child’s mother of adultery.3 Additionally, two federal cases, Singleton v. Foreman, 435 F.…
• Food Fair, Inc. v. Anderson, 382 So. 2d 150 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980)
  …); Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Sheehan, 373 So. 2d 956 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979); Estate of Harper v. Orlando Funeral Home, Inc., 366 So. 2d 126 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979); Dowling v. Blue Cross of Florida, Inc., 338 So. 2d 88 (Fla. 1st DCA 1976); Korbin v. Berlin, 177 So. 2d 551 (Fla. 3d DCA 1965). The question is raised as to whether the facts adduced herein constitute “conduct exceeding all bounds which could be tolerated by society, of a nature especially calculated to cause mental damage of a very serious kind.” Slocum,…
• Dominguez v. Equitable Life Assurance Soc'y OF the United States, 438 So. 2d 58 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983)
  …e of action for emotional distress based on outrageous conduct will lie only where it is coupled with other recognized tortious conduct. It appears, however, that in Sacco, we completely overlooked our earlier contrary precedent of Korbin v. Berlin, 177 So. 2d 551 (Fla. 3d DCA 1965), cert. dismissed, 183 So. 2d 835 (Fla.1966), and in Gellert, although paying lip service to Kor-bin, we incorrectly categorized Korbin as being a case where the outrageous conduct was coupled with an independent tort. Korbin, howe…