Ring v. Ring’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Brault v. Town of Milton (1975), Nagy v. McBurney (1978)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 15 N.J. Super. 139 - Mayflower Industries v. Thor Corp. · North Point Construction Co. v. Sagner · Aalfs v. Aalfs · 199 Pa. Super. 180 - King v. Bernstein · Board of Education of the Miami Trace Local School District v. Marting
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So a suit for malicious prosecution will lie where the plaintiff’s property or business has been interfered with by the appointment of a receiver, the granting of an injunction, by writ of replevin, by the filing of a lis pendens or the preferment of charges against a police officer which results in his suspension from duty. (Emphasis added in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frazer v. Hall
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.