Epps v. Vogel’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2018
2 district · 7 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 Foman v. Davis · Castro v. United States · Erckman v. United States · Ransom v. Brennan · Morowitz v. Marvel
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party’s ulterior motive does not make the issuance of process actionable; in addition to ulterior motive, one must allege and prove that there has been a perversion of the judicial process”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[t]he Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure manifest a preference for resolution of disputes on the merits, not on technicalities of pleading.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“leave to amend should be given freely `in the absence of any apparent or declared reason' for not permitting amendment.”
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.