Ahring v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably Thompson v. General Finance Co., Inc. (1970), Tappen v. Ager (1979)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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 Malone v. Murphy · Marbourg v. Smith · McClenny v. Inverarity · Walker v. Smay · Carbondale Investment Co. v. Burdick
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An action for malicious prosecution of a civil suit differs from an action for damages for abuse of process. (McClenny v. Inverarity, 80 Kan. 569 , 103 Pac. 82 .) In abuse of process it is said the gist of the tort is not commencing an action or causing process to issue without justification, but misusing or misapplying process, justified in itself, for an end other than that which it was designed to accomplish. (Prosser on Torts, 892).” (p. 63.)”
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.