Quina v. Robert's’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2003
20 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 Graham v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Tuyes v. Chambers · Keating v. Conviser
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.
“It is manifest to us that the issuance of the letter and enclosure in this case, for the obvious purpose and design of forcing a payment by plaintiff, constituted a tort under our law and that plaintiff is entitled to redress even though he was unable to prove special damage”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sufficient to warrant the conclusion that it was issued with the intention of invoking his [the employer's] influence and control over the plaintiff as a means of forcing the latter, through fear of discharge or otherwise, to liquidate the small balance of his indebtedness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in such a way so as to mislead the employer into believing that it was issued out of some official or legal channel and the amount claimed therein is admittedly incorrect.”
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.