Meyer v. Nedry’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1983
6 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 Thienes v. Francis · Eastman v. Monastes
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test of liability in an action for malicious prosecution is: was defendant actively instrumental in putting the law in force? To sustain the action, it must affirmatively appear as part of the case of the party demanding damages that the party sought to be charged was the proximate and efficient cause of maliciously putting the law in motion. * * * ” (Emphasis added.) Meyer v. Nedry, 159 Or. 62 , 78 P.2d 339, 341 (1938).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cates v. Eddy“`was defendant actively instrumental in putting the law in force? * * *. To impose liability there must be some affirmative action by way of advice, encouragement, etc.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`come on, son, we are not getting anywhere this way, we will take it up in higher hands.'”
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.