Small v. McGovern’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1943
8 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 Heddles v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · Strehlow v. Pettit · Messman v. Ihlenfeldt · Stone v. Northwestern Sleigh Co. · Eggett v. Allen
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is elementary law that the action for malicious prosecution can be maintained only when the defendant was actuated by malice and acted without probable cause to believe the accused guilty.” (Citing numerous prior Wisconsin cases.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. De Vries v. Dye
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.