Mozzochi v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 30 district · 348 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 399 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven (1991), S.M.S. Textile Mills, Inc. v. Brown, Jacobson, Tillinghast, Lahan & King, P.C. (1993)
6 federal appellate · 30 district · 348 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 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · International Ass'n of Machinists v. Duckworth · Petyan v. Ellis · 56 Cal. 2d 583 - Lucas v. Hamm · Sheets v. Teddy's Frosted Foods, Inc.
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 399 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action for abuse of process lies against any person using a legal process against another in an improper manner or to accomplish a purpose for which it was not designed.”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage“point to specific misconduct intended to cause specific injury outside of the normal contemplation of private litigation.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“Violation of a Rule [of the Rules of Professional Conduct] should not give rise to a cause of action nor should it create any presumption that a legal duty has been breached. The Rules are designed to provide guidance to lawyers and to provide a structure for regulating conduct through disciplinary agencies. They are not designed to be a basis for civil liability.”
6 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.