Vesper v. Crane Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1989 · most notably 68 Cal. 2d 336 - White Lighting Co. v. Wolfson (1968), 216 Cal. App. 3d 547 - Leonardini v. Shell Oil Co. (1989)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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 Stewart v. Sonneborn · Asevado v. Orr · Eastin v. Bank of Stockton · Grant v. Moore · Robinson v. Kellum
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We content ourselves with reference to our own cases and the authorities referred to therein sustaining the rule that allegation and proof of both malice and want of probable cause are essential to a suit against an attachment plaintiff, without additional citation from other jurisdictions, which abundantly sustain this rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If * * * (otherwise) then every man who brings a suit against another, with the most firm and reasonable belief that he has a just claim, and a lawful right to resort to the courts, is responsible in damages for the consequences of his action, if he happens to fail in his suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The action to recover damages from the attachment plaintiff for the mere wrongful issuance and levy of an attachment is analogous to the ordinary action for malicious prosecution ....”
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.