Hewitt v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2025
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 Bradshaw v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · DeVaney v. Thriftway Marketing Corp. · Frey v. Stoneman · Westfield Development Co. v. Rifle Investment Associates · DeStefano v. Nichols ex rel. Nichols
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Colorado, abuse of process requires proof of (1) an ulterior purpose in the use of judicial proceedings; (2) willfol actions by a defendant in the use of process that are not proper in the regular conduct of a proceeding; and (8) damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have consistently held that whe[n] a lis pendens forms the basis of a malicious prosecution claim, the lis pendens action must be terminated in favor of the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.