Barfield v. Marron’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 1999 · most notably Rodarte Ex Rel. Rodarte v. City of Riverton (1976), State v. Aias (1963)
32 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 De Bouchel v. Koss Const. Co. · Dunson v. Baker · O'Malley v. Whitaker · Lyons v. Carroll · Pellifigue v. Judice
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The wrongdoer in making the unlawful arrest or causing it to be made, takes the law in his own hands and acts without a warrant from a court or magistrate while the man who instigates a malicious prosecution puts the machinery of criminal law into operation, causing a warrant to issue and the arrest under the warrant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It has been well said in Lyons v. Carroll, 107 La. 471 , 31 So. 760 , 761, that `Those who honestly seek enforcement of law and the administration of justice, and who are supported by circumstances sufficiently strong to warrant a cautious man in the belief that the party suspected may be guilty of the offense charged, should not be unduly apprehensive that they will be held answerable in damages.' * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"... where a citizen is arrested on reasonable suspicion of a felony, the officer may detain the party until inquiry may be made, and damages will not be allowed where the prosecuting officer acted in good faith and with probable cause." See also Dunson v. Baker, 144 La. 167 , 80 So. 238 ; Hughes v. Standidge, 219 So.2d 6 (La.App.4th, 1969).”
1 later decision 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.