Simon v. Perret’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2019
4 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 550 So. 2d 577 - Penalber v. Blount · 394 So. 2d 1189 - Thornhill v. Black, Sivalls & Bryson, Inc. · 354 So. 2d 1389 - Mini-Togs, Inc. v. Young · Chapeuis v. Cassimano · Chapeuis v. Cassimano
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The two essential elements of abuse of process are: (1) an ulterior purpose and (2) a wilful act in the use of the process not proper in regular conduct of the proceeding. It involves the misuse of a process already legally issued whereby a party attempts to obtain some result not proper under law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]buse of process is a cause of action originating from the common law and recognized under our jurisprudence as a compensable tort under [La.Civ.Code] art. 2315.”
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.