Taylor v. Bidwell’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 18 Cal. 4th 1 - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center v. Superior Court (1998), 172 Cal. App. 2d 756 - Agnew v. Parks (1959)
25 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 Herron v. Hughes · Smith v. Lewis · Piller v. S. Pac. R.R. · Smith v. Lowry · Wood v. Currey
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The gravamen of the action is the alleged malicious prosecution. The averments of the complaint, with respect to the conspiracy of the defendants, are not of the gist of the action. That lies in the wrongful and damaging act done. Herron v. Hughes, 25 Cal. 560 . Said Chief Justice Holt, in Savile v. Roberts, 1 Raym. Ld. 378: An action will not lie for the greatest conspiracy imaginable if nothing be put in execution; but if the party be damaged the action will lie. From whence it follows that the damage is the ground of the action.’ See, also, Hutchins v. Hutchins, 7 Hill (N. Y.) 104 ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marten v. Holbrook
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.