Dean v. . Kochendorfer’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2013 · most notably Wheeldin v. Wheeler (1963), Savino v. City of New York (2003)
3 federal appellate · 42 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 Director General of Railroads v. Kastenbaum · Burt v. . Smith · Fagnan v. . Knox · Carl v. . Ayers · Baldwin v. Weed
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The gist of the action for abuse of process lies in the improper use of process after it is issued. To show that regularly issued process was perverted to the accomplishment of an improper purpose is enough.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tranchina v. Arcinas
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.