Find the smallest, non-empty, array given a set of successively applied filters.

successiveFilter.js

/**
 * Succesively filter an array until the minimum result set is found
 * @param {array} array - Array to be filtered
 * @param {function...} fn1..fnN - Any number of filter functions
 * @returns {array} The smallest non-empty array given the set of filters
 */
function successiveFilter(array /* ... */) {
	var prevArray,
		fnArray = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1);

	while (array.length > 1 && fnArray.length) {
		prevArray = array;
		array = prevArray.filter(fnArray.shift());
	}

	return array.length ? array : prevArray;
}