Brown v. Master’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1993 · most notably Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Benson (1908), Birwood Paper Company v. Damsky (1969)
25 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 Ala. Great Southern R. R. v. Hill · Lunsford v. Dietrich · Kirksey v. Jones · Calhoun v. Hannan & Michael · Tucker v. Adams
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But in the action of malicious prosecution against the plaintiff in attachment, the attachment must be wrongful, and' must have been sued out with malice and without probable cause. If not wrongful, i. e., if the facts justify and authorize its issuance, if a statutory ground exists, no recovery can be had, though the defendant was actuated purely by malice in suing out the writ. If wrongful, but not malicious, no recovery can be had. If wrongful and malicious, but with probable cause, the action will fail. And if wrongful and without probable cause, and also without malice, no action can be maintained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells Co. v. Lane“deny or put in issue the cause for which the attachment issued”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. . Harris
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.