Zeller v. Consolini’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Label Systems Corp. v. Samad Aghamohammadi (2004), Rioux v. Barry (2007)
4 district · 60 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 Mingachos v. CBS, Inc. · DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven · Blake v. Levy · Vandersluis v. Weil · Rainier's Dairies v. Raritan Valley Farms, 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“serves to discourage unfounded litigation without impairing the presentation of honest but uncertain causes of action to the courts.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“a claim for vexatious litigation requires a plaintiff to allege that the previous lawsuit was . . . terminated in the plaintiff's favor,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n both proceedings, the plaintiffs were `parties' in both a legal and a practical sense .”
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.