Soffos v. Eaton’s Empirical Analysis
152 F.2d 682 · 1945
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 64 Ill. App. 3d 940 - Berlin v. Nathan (1978), United States Steel Corp. v. United Mine Workers (1972)
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 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 Pye v. Cardwell · Melvin v. Pence · Shedd v. Patterson · Peckham v. Union Finance Co. · Myhre v. Hessey
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of being compelled to defend successive unconscionable suits is not one which would `necessarily result in all suits prosecuted to recover for like causes of action.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * no action will lie for the recovery of damages sustained by the prosecution of a civil action with malice, and without probable cause, when there has been no arrest of the person or seizure of the property of the defendant, and no special injury sustained, which would not necessarily result in all suits prosecuted to recover for like causes of action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“one who twice sues another maliciously and without probable cause is responsible to him in damages.”
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.