Freeman v. Kirby’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1998
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Bates v. Clark · Reynolds Metals Co. v. Metals Disintegrating Co. · Murchison v. Kirby · 161 F. Supp. 55 - Rosen v. Texas Company
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“35 Count 3 alleged a conspiracy maliciously to violate Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 36 Judge Dawson concluded that it is the law of New York that to sustain a complaint in a civil litigation based on malicious prosecution, there must be an allegation that the plaintiff's person or property was interfered with in connection with the prior proceeding. Because there were no allegations of special circumstances which would take the case out of the general rule of interference with person or property, he dismissed Count 1. 37 The”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * The signature of an attorney constitutes a certificate by him that he has read the pleading; that to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief there is good ground to support it; and that it is not interposed for delay. If a pleading is not signed or is signed with intent to defeat the purpose of this rule, it may be stricken as sham and false * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Halpern v. Barran
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.