Simon II v. Navon Simon II’s Empirical Analysis
71 F.3d 9 · 1995
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 16 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Quint v. Ae Staley Manufacturing Company M (1999), DeVaney v. Thriftway Marketing Corp. (1997)
17 federal appellate · 16 district · 9 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 Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · State v. Simpson · Wagenmann v. Adams · Board of Education v. Farmingdale Classroom Teachers Ass'n · Sanchez v. Puerto Rico Oil 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]iling of a lawsuit is a regular use of process, and therefore, may not on its own fulfill the requirement of an abusive act, even if the decision to sue was influenced by a wrongful motive, purpose or intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“upon a showing of plain error resulting in a manifest miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a showing of bad motive in connection with 'regular' process is not enough”
1 later decision 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.