Valles v. Silverman’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 7 Cal. 4th 503 - Applied Equipment Corp. v. Litton Saudi Arabia Ltd. · 164 Ill. 2d 54 - Adcock v. Brakegate, Ltd. · Schmitz v. Smentowski · Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club v. New Mexico Mining Commission · DeVaney v. Thriftway Marketing Corp.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of committing malicious abuse of process to be held liable as a coconspirator.”). As one commentator has observed:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.