McClarty v. Bickel’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably White v. Frank (1988), Bryant v. Kentucky (1974)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To sustain an action for malicious prosecution, it must affirmatively appear as a part of the case of the party demanding damages, that the party sought to be charged was the proximate and efficient cause of maliciously putting the law in action. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ballard v. Cash
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.