Petit v. Cuneo’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1997 · most notably 77 Ill. 2d 173 - Swager v. Couri (1979), Fishman v. Estate of Wirtz (1986)
3 federal appellate · 18 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 Hornstein v. Podwitz · Kemp v. Division No. 241, Amalgamated Ass'n of Street & Electric Railway Employees of America · Dowie v. Chicago, Waukegan & North Shore Railway Co. · Hohmann v. Eiterman · Winters v. University District Building & Loan Ass'n
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ne who has an interest may take action to protect his rights, and even if the interference is done with malice he cannot be held financially liable for the result of his actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.