Graziani v. Ernst’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 1985 · most notably Davis v. Brady (1927), Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Greenbrier Distillery Co. (1916)
25 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 Ellison v. Georgia Railroad · Louisville & N. R. R. v. Pointer's Admr. · Petry v. Petry
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To set forth a cause of action for malicious prosecution for a crime or misdemeanor it is necessary to allege: (1) that the defendant caused a proceeding, judicial in its character, to be instituted against the complainant, in which he is charged with the guilt of a crime or misdemeanor; (2) that the proceeding has terminated favorably to the complainant, either by a trial or a nolle prosequi or if adversely to plaintiff, it was procured by the corruption or fraud of defendant; (3) that the defendant was actuated by malice in instituting or conducting the prosecution; (4) that the proceeding was instituted without probable cause for belief in the guilt of the complainant of such crime or misdemeanor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.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.