Lujan v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2007
19 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 13 Cal. 3d 43 - Bertero v. National General Corp. · Ray Wong v. Earle C. Anthony, Inc. · 16 Cal. 3d 432 - Skopp v. Weaver · Fusario v. Cavallaro · Laney v. Glidden Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who had no part in the commencement of the action, but who participated in it at a later time, may be held liable for malicious prosecution.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“There does not appear to be any good reason not to impose liability upon a person who inflicts harm by aiding or abetting a malicious prosecution which someone else has instituted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether the alleged participation of Gordon and Lipstone commencing June 28, 1973, may subject them to any [malicious prosecution] liability,”
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.