Felts v. Paradise’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably 172 Cal. App. 2d 756 - Agnew v. Parks (1959), 73 Wash. 2d 434 - W. G. Platts, Inc. v. Platts (1968)
2 federal appellate · 20 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a conspiracy to do a thing is [not] actionable where the thing itself would not be.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In Schaub v. O’Ferrall, 116 Md. 131 , 81 A. 789, 792 , 39 L.R.A.,N.S., 416, Ann.Cas.l913C, 799, 802, the court quoted from its former decision in Kimball v. Harman, 34 Md. 407, 410 , 6 Am.Rep. 340 , as follows: ‘It is clear, therefore, as well upon the authority of other cases as that of Savile v. Roberts, 1 Ld.Raym. [Eng] 374, that an act which, if done by one alone, constitutes no ground of an action on the case, cannot be made the ground of such action by alleging it to have been done by and through a conspiracy of several.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ragsdale v. Watson
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.