Hatch v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2025
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 69 Cal. 2d 461 - Templeton Feed & Grain v. Ralston Purina Co. · Nancy P. v. D'AMATO · 157 Mich. App. 618 - Early Detection Center, PC v. New York Life Insurance · Sampson v. Richins · 30 Utah 2d 451 - Crease v. Pleasant Grove City
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a party must allege both an ulteri- or purpose and a wilful act in the use of the process not proper in the regular conduct of the proceeding.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[ulse of legal process with a bad motive alone'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In considering whether conduct triggers the exception [to the “presence” rule], a finder of fact may consider (1) the relationship of the target of the conduct to the plaintiff, (2) the relationship between the person committing the conduct and the plaintiff, and (3) the egregiousness of the conduct. Finally, (4) a plaintiff must establish that the conduct was undertaken, in whole or in part, with the intention of inflicting injury to the absent plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cabaness v. Thomas
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.