Vaught v. Waites’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Pye v. Estate of Fox Ex Rel. Estate of Fox (2006), Ward v. State (2000)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 Small v. Springs Industries, Inc. · Todd v. South Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance · Lee v. Chesterfield General Hospital, Inc. · Frady v. Smith · Toth v. Square D 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he fifth cause of action [civil conspiracy claim] does no more than incorporate the prior allegations and then allege the existence of a civil conspiracy and pray for damages resulting from the conspiracy. No additional acts in furtherance of the conspiracy are plead. The only alleged wrongful acts plead are those for which damages have already been sought.”
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.