Beard v. Ludwig’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1997
8 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 Burns v. Genovese · United Bonding Insurance Co. v. Smith & Sapp Construction Co. · Acme Stores, Inc. v. Better Business Bureau of Baton Rouge, Inc. · Edwards v. Derrick · 244 So. 2d 681 - Tillman v. Holsum Bakeries, 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The use of criminal process to enforce a Civil claim is an intolerable abuse even where the claim exists. But if the claim is unfounded, it shows a recklessness of the rights and character of others which amounts to malice."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harvey v. Bertaut
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.