Cole v. Curtis’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 1983 · most notably McCarthy v. De Armit (1881), Simpson v. Montgomery Ward & Co. (1946)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 Israel v. Brooks · Sanborn v. School District No. 10 · Chapman v. Dodd · Secor v. Babcock · Richey v. McBean
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Probable cause for instituting a prosecution is held to be such a state of facts known to and influencing the prosecutor as would lead a man of ordinary caution and prudence, acting conscientiously, impartially, reasonably, and without prejudice, upon the facts within the party’s knowledge, to believe or entertain an honest and strong suspicion that the person accused is guilty.””
1 later decision 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.