Welch v. Shepherd’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2001
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 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 Stoner v. Wilson · Ahring v. White · McClenny v. Inverarity · Sharp v. Cox · 1 Kan. App. 131 - Wurmser v. Stone
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... The facts pleaded are more consonant with a claim of false imprisonment or malicious prosecution, and if so construed, the action would be barred under G.S. 1935, 60-306, Fourth. But simply because that might be the result does not mean the petition is to be construed as stating a cause of action on some other theory so that the cause of action is not barred...." (p. 367.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) an ulterior motive in the use of regular court process; and (2) the defendant committed an act in the use of process not proper in the regular prosecution of the proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.