Vandersluis v. Weil’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 37 district · 286 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 335 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Connecticut v. Doehr (1991), DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven (1991)
3 federal appellate · 37 district · 286 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 Collens v. New Canaan Water Co. · Triangle Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Silver · Schaefer v. O. K. Tool Co., Inc. · McGann v. Allen · Zenik v. O'BRIEN
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 335 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probable cause is the knowledge of facts sufficient to justify a reasonable person in the belief that there are reasonable grounds for prosecuting an action.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“A vexatious suit is a kind of malicious prosecution action, differing principally in that it is based upon a prior civil action, whereas a malicious prosecution suit ordinarily implies a prior criminal complaint.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“Advice of counsel is a complete defense to an action of . . . vexatious suit when it is shown that the defendant . . . instituted his civil action relying in good faith on such advice, given after a full and fair statement of all facts within his knowledge, or which he was charged with knowing. The fact that the attorney's advice was unsound or erroneous will not affect the result.”
10 later decisions 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.