Ferguson v. . Arnow’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1999
1 federal appellate · 11 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, upon such evidence as we have here, an action for malicious prosecution could be maintained, then such an action could be maintained for the unsuccessful prosecution of many of the actions which come upon appeal to this court, and a large proportion of unsuccessful actions could be followed by such an action, and litigation be thus interminably prolonged.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A party who brings an action for malicious prosecution against a plaintiff who has been unsuccessful in a civil action shall not be permitted to recover without very clear and satisfactory proof of all the fundamental facts constituting his case. Such actions should not be encouraged.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Paul v. Fargo · Berkowich v. Kommel
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.