Kollodge v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably DeVaney v. Thriftway Marketing Corp. (1997), Young v. Allstate Insurance Co. (2008)
50 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 42 Cal. 3d 1157 - Oren Royal Oaks Venture v. Greenberg, Bernard, Weiss & Karma Inc. · Zeman v. Lufthansa German Airlines · Bull v. McCuskey · 622 F. Supp. 737 - Laxalt v. McClatchy · Linck v. Barokas & Martin, R.R.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““it is enough that the complaint set forth allegations of fact consistent with and appropriate to some enforceable cause of action.” The trial court must only consider the material contained in the pleadings .... The court “must presume all factual allegations of the complaint to be true and [make] all reasonable inferences ... in favor of the non-moving party.” Motions to dismiss are viewed with disfavor and should rarely be granted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a willful act in the use of the process not proper in the regular conduct of the proceeding.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“contemplates some overt act and therefore 'the mere filing or maintenance of a lawsuit-even for an improper purpose-is not a basis for an abuse of process action'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Greene v. Tinker · Weber v. State
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.