Heinze v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Zenobia (1992), Clea v. Mayor of Baltimore (1988)
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 85 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 The Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company v. Philip Quigley · Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Gardiner Dairy Co. · Romie v. Casanova · Sloan v. Edwards · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Strube
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[a]n officer who acts in good faith in making an arrest is absolved from punitive or exemplary damages, even though he is liable for compensatory damages. However, such damages may be allowed against an officer under circumstances upon which bad faith or malice may be attributed to him in making the arrest.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the pecuniary circumstances of the defendant are proper to be considered,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exemplary damages must be justified by circumstances of aggravation. A wrong motive must accompany the wrongful act, and without proof of malice, or some other aggravation, exemplary damages cannot be recovered.”
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.