Brodrib v. Doberstein’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
6 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Vandersluis v. Weil (1978), Mulligan v. Rioux (1994)
6 district · 53 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 Stewart v. Sonneborn · McGann v. Allen · Thompson v. Beacon Valley Rubber Co. · Hicks v. Brantley · Simmons v. Gardner
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unbiased and unprejudiced against the party [complained of].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When one fully and fairly states all the material facts within his knowledge to the prosecuting attorney and in good faith abides by his decision as to whether they constitute probable cause for believing that a crime has been committed, no action will lie against him because of a prosecution resulting from the statement made by him to the prosecuting attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he existence of probable cause is an absolute protection against an action for malicious prosecution and what facts, and whether particular facts, constitute probable cause is always a question of law.”
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.