Gray v. Abboud’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2008
13 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 Franzen v. Shenk · Dickerson v. . Refining Co. · Williams v. Frey · Empire Gas & Fuel Co. v. Wainscott · Thelma Oil & Gas Co. v. Sinclair Gulf Oil Co.
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 has very aptly been stated that one who initiates civil proceedings against another, has ‘probable cause’ for so doing if he reasonably believes in the existence of facts upon which his claim is based and reasonably believes that under such facts the claim may be valid at common law or under an existing statute. See Restatement of the Law, Torts, sec. 675, p. 446. Thus it follows that a reasonable belief in the possibility that his claims may be held valid is sufficient to give the prosecutor probable cause for instituting such proceedings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Towne v. Martin
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.