Abbo v.’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2018
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Kawaauhau v. Geiger · Johnson v. Miera · Braen Laganella Pt v. Braen · Gnidovec v. Alwan (In Re Alwan Bros.)
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he State Court’s instructions for the abuse of process charge required the jury to prove that the defendant ‘used the legal process for an ulterior purpose’ and that he ‘intentionally’ and improperly filed charges against the plaintiff to ‘annoy and aggravate’ him, causing direct injury to 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.