Marshak v. Marshak’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

134

cited by 134 later decisions

states following

June 2014

most recently cited

12 district · 109 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Macomber v. Travelers Property & Casualty Corp. (2002), Zamstein v. Marvasti (1997)

12 district · 109 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 Cort v. Ash · Nowak v. Nowak · 19 Cal. 3d 441 - Borer v. American Airlines, Inc. · Montgomery v. Crum · Lloyd v. Loeffler

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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“The contours of a civil action for conspiracy are: (1) a combination between two or more persons, (2) to do a criminal or an unlawful act or a lawful act by criminal or unlawful means, (3) an act done by one or more of the conspirators pursuant to the scheme and in furtherance of the object, (4) which act results in damage to the plaintiff.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Bardon Tool Mfg. v. the Torrington, No. Cv 96-0473455 S (Oct. 31, 1996) · Sceink v. Baker, No. Cv99 0172704 S (Jul. 11, 2000)
“[t]here is no such thing as a civil action for conspiracy. The action is for damages caused by acts committed pursuant to a formed conspiracy rather than by the conspiracy itself.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Bardon Tool Mfg. v. the Torrington, No. Cv 96-0473455 S (Oct. 31, 1996) · Green Trees Dev. v. Silver Meadows, No. X06 Cv 98-0153200 S (Sep. 8, 1999)
“[o]ne who, with knowledge that the parent does not consent, abducts or otherwise compels or induces a minor child to leave a parent legally entitled to its custody or not to return to the parent after it has been left him, is subject to liability to the parent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Arthur v. Huschke, No. Cv 99-0428015 (Sep. 10, 1999) · 204 W. Va. 95 - Kessel v. Leavitt

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.