Brian v. Christensen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““VII. That prior to the ultimate disbursal of funds belonging to plaintiff, the State of California, through its Director of the Department of Health Care Services, did attempt to require this plaintiff to pay money belonging to his client to the State of California in satisfaction of a purported lien claim for care and services purportedly rendered to this plaintiff’s client. “X. That as a direct and proximate result of the malicious abuse of the process of the court to coerce the payment of money by this plaintiff for the debt of another, and to teach him a lesson for refusing to pay the State of California what they wanted, plaintiff has been generally damaged in the sum of Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars. “XII. That the defendants, and each of them, did act wilfully, maliciously, and with intent to vex, harass, and cause plaintiff unwarranted expenses in the defense of the unfounded claim, and because of such conduct plaintiff is entitled to punitive damages from the defendants, and each of them, in the sum of Fifty Thousand ($50,000.00) Dollars. “XIII. That prior to the institution of this action, plaintiff filed a claim for damages for abuse of process with the State Board of Control. That the State Board of Control did, on September 6, 1972, deny the claim for damages and this action has been commenced six (6) months from the date of the denial as aforesaid.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Christensen v. Younger