Nelson v. Kellogg’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 37 Cal. 3d 813 - Brandt v. Superior Court (1985), Prentice v. North American Title Guaranty Corp. (1963)
35 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 Hale v. San Bernardino Valley Traction Co. · 5 Cal. App. 111 - Neves v. Costa · Elder v. Kutner · Donnelly v. Hufschmidt · Willson v. McEvoy
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defense of probable cause is not applicable in actions for false imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Mellon
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.