Hill v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2016
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Smith · Abels v. Renfro Corp. · Pitts v. Village Inn Pizza, Inc. · Jones v. Gwynne · Moore v. City of Creedmoor
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the defendant '(1) instituted, procured or participated in the criminal proceeding against [the] plaintiff; (2) without probable cause; (3) with malice; and (4) the prior proceeding terminated in favor of [the] plaintiff.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.