Engel v. CBS, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
145 F.3d 499 · 1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2014
1 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1125 (§ 43 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Broughton v. State · Curiano v. Suozzi · Williams v. Williams · Burt v. . Smith · O'Brien v. Alexander
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the initiation of an action by the defendant against [him], 2) begun with malice, 3) without probable cause to believe it can succeed, 4) that ends in failure, or in other words, terminates in favor of the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the proceeding of which plaintiff complains was a civil action, the plaintiff must prove special injury — some interference with [the] plaintiff's person or property... beyond the ordinary burden of defending a lawsuit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“regardless of which source of law governs a Plaintiff's claim.” Id. at 154. . To state a claim under New York law for the malicious prosecution of a civil action, a plaintiff must show”
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.