22 Ohio App. 2d 61 - Avco Delta Corp. v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Crawford v. Euclid National Bank (1985), 16 Ohio App. 3d 9 - Clermont Environmental Reclamation Co. v. Hancock (1984)
3 federal appellate · 17 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 118 Ohio App. 451 - Delk v. Colonial Finance Co. · 101 Ohio App. 285 - Perry v. Arsham
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a general rule no suit will lie for the malicious prosecution of a civil action, where there has been no arrest of the person or seizure of property.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An action for abuse of process differs from an action for malicious prosecution in that the latter is concerned with maliciously causing process to issue, while the former is concerned with the improper use of process after it has been issued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘* * * [T]he malicious abuse of process is the employment of a process in a manner not contemplated by law, or to obtain an object which such a process is not intended by law to effect.’ ””
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.