Peckham v. Hirschfeld’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2014
2 federal appellate · 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 Sherman v. McDermott · Cavanagh v. Cavanagh · Hopkins v. Drowne · Berberian v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Brodeur v. Desrosiers
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.
““[t]he mere fact that a person asserts a claim to the property that is unfounded does not warrant a presumption of malice, but a plaintiff ‘must also show that the defendant could not honestly have believed in the existence of the right he [or she] claimed, or at least that he [or she] had no reasonable or probable cause of believing so.’ ” Id. (quoting Hopkins, 21 R.I. at 25 , 41 A. at 569 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such maliciousness, wantonness or willfulness, `on the part of the party at fault, as amounted to criminality, which for the good of society and warning to the individual, ought to be punished.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.