Niese v. Klos’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Lee v. Southland Corp. (1978), Bain v. Phillips (1976)
4 federal appellate · 24 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 Wiggs v. Farmer · Brodie v. Huck · Clinchfield Coal Corp. v. Redd · E. I. Du Pont, etc., Co. v. Snead's Adm'r · Graves v. Scott
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“issuance of the warrant does not conclusively prove probable cause because of the very existence of the law permitting malicious prosecution actions....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. the prosecution was “set on foot” by Defendant and that it terminated in a manner not unfavorable to Plaintiff, 2. the prosecution was instituted, or procured by the cooperation of, Defendant, 3. the prosecution was without probable cause, and 4. the prosecution was malicious.”
1 later decision 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.