Blanton v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2019
3 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Martin v. Trevino · Ruza v. Ruza · JC Penney Company v. Gilford · Blackstock v. Tatum · Tandy Corporation v. McGregor
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the defendant made an illegal, improper or perverted use of the pro-: cess, a use neither warranted nor authorized by the process; (2) that the defendant had an ulterior motive or purpose in exercising such illegal, perverted or improper use of the process; and (3) that damage resulted to the plaintiff as a result of such illegal act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We recognize a need for some type of cause of action for damages sustained by a professional person as a result of a malicious malpractice case where the action only seeks to extort a settlement without any probable cause to believe the cause of action being asserted is valid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toranto v. Wall“Even if we assume that the amended pleading was maliciously filed, [the plaintiff's] suit is fatally defective because it fails to allege an improper use of the process.”
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.