Simpson v. Indopco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Burnett v. Griffith · Sanders v. Daniel International Corp. · Jungerman v. City of Raytown · Davis v. Board of Educ. City of St. Louis · Faust v. Ryder Commercial Leasing & Services
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the commencement of an earlier prosecution against the plaintiff; (2) the instigation of that prosecution by the defendant; (3) termination of the prosecution in favor of the plaintiff; (4) the want of probable cause for the prosecution; (5) that defendant’s conduct was actuated by malice; and (6) damage to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Engel v. Buchan“[P]laintiff's failure to prove any one of the elements results in the failure to make a submissible case of malicious prosecution.”
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.