Curiano v. Suozzi’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 381 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Savino v. City of New York (2003), Cook v. Sheldon (1994)
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 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.
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 381 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) process has issued mandating that a party either perform or forbear from a prescribed act; (2) such process was issued with an intent to do harm without excuse or justification; and (3) the process is being used to obtain a collateral objective.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) intentional infliction of harm, (2) causing special damages, (3) without excuse or justification, (4) by an act or series of acts that would otherwise be lawful.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A malicious motive alone ... does not give rise to a cause of action for abuse of process.”
4 later decisions 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.