Stafford v. Muster’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Fair Assessment in Real Estate Assn., Inc. v. McNary (1981), 579 F. Supp. 823 - United States v. Northeastern Pharmaceutical & Chemical Co. (1984)
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 37 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Monroe v. Pape · Pierson v. Ray · Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · Hutton v. United States
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the present defendant made an illegal, improper, perverted use of process, a use neither warranted nor authorized by the process; (2) the defendant had an improper purpose in exercising such illegal, perverted or improper use of process; and (3) damage resulted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The elements of an action for malicious prosecution are (1) the commencement or prosecution of the proceedings against the present plaintiff; (2) its legal causation or instigation by the present defendant; (3) its termination in favor of the present plaintiff; (4) the absence of probable cause for such proceeding; (5) the presence of malice therein; and (6) damage by reason thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. Dunn“For the guidance of those involved in further proceedings, it should be noted that this petition sets forth several claims stemming from a single set of occurrences with a single series of damages. Should plaintiff adduce sufficient proof of liability at trial, she may recover but once for the injuries she sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sellers v. Mineta
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.