Yost v. Torok’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably DeVaney v. Thriftway Marketing Corp. (1997), Simon II v. Navon Simon II (1995)
6 federal appellate · 123 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 Westview Cemetery, Inc. v. Blanchard · Hamilton v. Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy · Porter v. Johnson · Village Centers, Inc. v. DeKalb County · Stapleton v. Palmore
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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any party who shall assert a claim, defense, or other position with respect to which there exists such a complete absence of any justicia-ble issue of law or fact that it reasonably could not be believed that a court would accept the asserted claim, defense, or other position; or any party who shall bring or defend an action, or any part thereof, that lacks substantial justification, or is interposed for delay or harassment; or any party who unnecessarily expands the proceeding by other improper conduct ... shall be liable in tort to an opposing party who suffers damages thereby.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“special damages other than attorney fees and expenses of litigation; damages for mental distress, where there is either wilfulness, or wanton and reckless disregard of consequences which is the equivalent of wilfulness [cit.]; or nominal damages pursuant to OCGA § 51-12-4.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]unitive damages ... are excluded as the tort itself is designed as a deterrent. [Cits.]”
2 later decisions 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.