Hewitt v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 7 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “whether under Colorado law malicious prosecution should be modified to exclude the element of favorable resolution when the claim is based upon the wrongful filing of lis pendens. " Pet. at 4 (emphasis added). [3] For example, the court of appeals described Petitioners' malicious prosecution claim as alleging that Respondents "knew or should have known that it was unnecessary to bring”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hewitt v. Rice

2. “The purpose of an action for malicious prosecution is to compensate a person sued in a malicious and baseless legal action for attorney fees, costs, psychic damage, and loss of reputation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Young v. Allstate Insurance Co.

3. “knew or had reason to know that the [1998 action] and Notice of Lis Pendens lacked any reasonable basis of law and fact.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hewitt v. Rice