Clyne v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
March 2015
most recently cited
2 district · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brough v. Foley · Solitro v. Moffatt · Hillside Associates v. Stravato · Burke-Tarr Company v. Ferland Corporation
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a suit for damages resulting from a prior criminal or civil legal proceeding that was instituted maliciously and without probable cause, and that terminated unsuccessfully for the plaintiff therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the person initiating the original action was primarily motivated by ill will or hostility or [regardless of such motivation] did not believe that he or she would succeed in that action,'”
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.