150 Ga. App. 589 - Kviten v. Nash’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2000
12 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 Standard Oil Co. v. Mount Bethel United Methodist Church · 143 Ga. App. 282 - Clark v. Aenchbacher · Farrar v. Brackett · 140 Ga. App. 390 - Williams v. Tribble · 125 Ga. App. 416 - American Plan Corp. v. Beckham
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Want of probable cause is an essential element of a malicious prosecution cause of action. Ordinarily, the existence of probable cause is a question of fact for jury determination. Only where the material facts are not in dispute, or when only reasonable inference can be drawn from the evidence, does the existence of probable cause become an issue of law for the court to resolve." Kviten v. Nash (1979), 150 Ga. App. 589 , 258 S.E.2d 271 .”
2 later decisions 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.