103 Ga. App. 375 - Smith v. Embry’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2008
17 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 Page v. Citizens Banking Co. · Waters v. Winn · 90 Ga. App. 40 - Ellis v. Knowles · 14 Ga. App. 147 - Grist v. White · Gordon v. West
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]alicious arrest or false arrest may be made by virtue either of a valid warrant maliciously and without probable cause... or unlawfully under a void warrant or without a warrant ( Standard Surety &c. Co. v. Johnson, 74 Ga. App. 823, 825 ( 41 S.E.2d 576 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]f the plaintiff was arrested and prosecuted under a valid warrant, the action is malicious prosecution; if wrongfully under a void warrant or no warrant the action is false imprisonment ... Where the warrant is void, malicious prosecution will not lie.”
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.