Cook v. Bratton’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2016
1 federal appellate · 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is thoroughly established in this jurisdiction, and generally, that to sustain an action for malicious prosecution, it must affirmatively appear (1) that the defendant was the proximate and efficient cause of putting the law in motion against the plaintiff in the action; (2) that he did so maliciously; and, (3) without probable cause. These three elements, malice, want of probable cause and a procuring of the warrant or indictment, must concur.””
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.