Griva v. Davison’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 28 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 116 F. Supp. 2d 116 - United States v. Philip Morris Inc. (2000), Paul v. Howard University (2000)
4 federal appellate · 28 district · 13 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 Harris v. McRae · Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. Kerr-McGee Corp. · Nader v. De Toledano · Cinema 5, Ltd. v. Cinerama, Inc.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an agreement between two or more persons; (2) to participate in an unlawful act, or in a lawful act in an unlawful manner; and (3) an injury caused by an unlawful overt act performed by one of the parties to the agreement (4) pursuant to, and in furtherance of, the common scheme.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“In addition, civil conspiracy depends on the performance of some underlying tortious act. It is not an independent action; it is, rather, a means for establishing vicarious liability for the underlying tort.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a violation of the Code of Professional Responsibility or of the Rules of Professional Conduct can constitute a breach of the attorney's common law fiduciary duty to the client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hendry v. Pelland
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.