Pecue v. . West’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Samuel Albert v. Salmen Loksen Brooklyn Hospital Karen Buono (2001), Julian v. American Business Consultants, Inc. (1956)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPecue v. West
Relationships
Relies on In re Quarles · Vogel v. Gruaz · Hemmens v. . Nelson · Andrews v. . Gardiner · Ashcroft v. . Hammond
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not mean alone personal ill will. It may also mean such a wanton and reckless disregard of the rights of another as is ill will's equivalent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We have said impliedly that the rule [of absolute immunity] applies only to a proceeding in court or one before an officer having attributes similar to a court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a false charge, not caring whether it was true or false”
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.