Duckwall v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1990
3 federal appellate · 16 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 Plummer v. State · Stamets v. Mitchenor · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Dixon · Laing v. Mitten · Vansickle v. Brown
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.
“While one who institutes a prosecution maliciously and without probable cause is clearly liable for all consequences of his act which may be expected in the ordinary course to result therefrom, he is not bound to anticipate that sworn officers of the law will be guilty of criminal offenses in violation of their official duty while the person so prosecuted is in their custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heban v. BFD, Inc.
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.