Winters v. Griffis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[m]ere passive knowledge of, or acquiescence or consent in, the acts of another is not sufficient to make one liable.... No liability ... attaches merely by reason of testifying as a witness for the prosecution, or by reason of the fact that one's name was indorsed on an indictment or signed to an information or complaint prepared on an independent investigation by the prosecutor.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 611 So. 2d 998 - Bankston v. Pass Road Tire Center, Inc. · 568 So. 2d 1182 - Benjamin v. Hooper Electronic Supply Co.

2. “defendant must have been the proximate and efficient cause of maliciously putting the law in motion in the original proceedings.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 568 So. 2d 1182 - Benjamin v. Hooper Electronic Supply Co. · 935 So. 2d 1084 - Funderburk v. Johnson