Whitesell v. Study’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1980
12 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 Stewart v. Sonneborn · Bartlett v. Christhilf · Chipley v. Atkinson · Phelps v. . Nowlen · Gary v. May
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If process, either civil or criminal, is wilfully made use of for a purpose not justified by the law, this is abuse for which an action will lie . . . It is enough that the process was wilfully abused to accomplish some unlawful purpose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * If a party to an action is injured in his person or property by the deceit or collusion of his attorney, he has a right of action by statute.” * * * (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meier v. Pearlman
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.