Clikos v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Horne v. Patton (1973), Eidson v. Olin Corp. (1988)
36 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 Bartlett v. Christhilf · Highland Avenue & Belt Railroad v. Dusenberry · Dickerson v. Schwabacher · B'ham Ry. L. & P. Co. v. Nicholas · Glidewell v. Murray-Lacy & Co.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One essential difference between the actions is that malicious prosecution refers to malice and wrong in the issuance of the process, while abuse of the process refers to the malicious and wrongful use of process which is regular and rightful in its issuance. * * A malicious abuse of legal process consists in the malicious misuse or misapplication of that process to accomplish some purpose not warranted or commanded by the writ. In brief, it is the malicious perversion. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“malice is made to appear in the eyes of the law.”
1 later decision 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.