Long v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2017
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 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 McGranahan v. Dahar · 38 Cal. App. 3d 289 - Younger v. Solomon · 92 Cal. App. 3d 503 - Clark Equipment Co. v. Wheat · Amabello v. Colonial Motors · 250 Cal. App. 2d 749 - Meadows v. Bakersfield Savings & Loan Ass'n
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The gravamen of the misconduct for which [liability for abuse of process] is imposed is not the wrongful procurement of legal process or the wrongful initiation of criminal or civil proceedings .... The subsequent misuse of the process, though properly obtained,'constitutes theTmscmu duct for which the liability is imposed under the rule stated in this Section.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“One who uses a legal process, whether criminal or civil, against another primarily to accomplish a purpose for which it is not designed, is subject to liability to the other for harm caused by the abuse of process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`as some activity or procedure involving the exercise, or dependent upon the existence, of judicial authority.'”
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.