Burnap v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2025
20 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Donnelly v. People ex rel. Bush
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.
““The rule by which attorneys may be held liable for malicious prosecutions is clearly laid down by Tindall, C. J., in Stockley v. Harnidge, 34 Eng. C.L R. 276. It was there held that if the attorneys who commenced the suit alleged to be malicious knew that there was no cause of action, and knowing this, ‘dishonestly and with some sinister view, for some purpose of their own, or for some other ill purpose which the law calls malicious, caused the plaintiff to be arrested and imprisoned,’ they were liable.” (Burnap v. Marsh et al., 13 Ill. 535, 538 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maechtlen v. Clapp
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.