206 Cal. App. 2d 742 - Bulkley v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 1990 · most notably 230 Cal. App. 2d 813 - Buckley v. Corey (1964), 80 Cal. App. 3d 823 - Minasian v. Sapse (1978)
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 18 Cal. 2d 146 - Jaffe v. Stone · Singleton v. Perry · Shields v. Oxnard Harbor District · 99 Cal. App. 2d 534 - Centers v. Dollar Markets · Leoni v. Delany
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * If the defendant complies with the formal requirements of the law, as by swearing out a valid warrant, so that the arrest of the plaintiff is legally authorized, the court and its officers are not his agents to make the arrest, and their acts are those of the law and the state, and not to be imputed to him. He is therefore liable, if at all, only for a misuse of legal process to effect a valid arrest for an improper purpose. The action must be for malicious prosecution, upon proof of malice and want of probable cause, as well as termination of the proceeding in favor of the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions 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.