Rich v. McInerny’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 1994 · most notably Barbara A. Nesmith and Richard A. Nesmith v. H. D. Alford (1963), Union Indemnity Co. v. Webster (1928)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Ragsdale v. Bowles
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.
“Arrest by officer without warrant; when and for what allowed. — An officer may also arrest any person, without warrant, on any day and at any time, for any public offense committed, or a breach of the peace threatened in his presence; or when a felony has been committed, although not in his presence, by the person arrested, or when a felony has been committed, and he has reasonable cause to believe that the person arrested committed it; or when he has reasonable cause to believe that the person arrested has committed a felony, although it may afterwards appear that a felony had not in fact been committed; or on a charge made, upon reasonable cause, that the person arrested has committed a felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The action is maintainable only wlien the arrest and imprisonment are done or caused by the defendant, upon a criminal charge, with malice and without probable cause. * * * It alleges arrest and imprisonment of plaintiff,nby the procurement of the defendant, upon a charge of larceny, with malice, and without probable cause. Being alleged, these elements must be shown to have existed, to justify a recovery by the plaintiff.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If the imprisonment is under legal process, but the prosecution has been commenced and carried on maliciously and without probable cause, terminating in the discharge of the defendant, it is malicious prosecution, and not false imprisonment. 7 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law. 603. The action for damages for false imprisonment is in trespass, for malicious prosecution, in case.””
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.