236 Mo. App. 459 - Engelbrecht v. Roworth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The Court instructs the jury that if you find in favor of the plaintiff under Instruction No. 1, then you are further instructed that if you find that in so causing the arrest of the plaintiff, if so, the defendants charged the plaintiff with the commission of larceny, if you so find, and that the plaintiff was not guilty of larceny, if so, and if you further find that the defendants caused such arrest maliciously and with intent to cause injury to plaintiff’s character and reputation, if you so find, then you may, in your discretion, in addition to the actual damages awarded plaintiff, if any, allow him such further sum by way of punitive damages as you may find and believe from the evidence as will be a proper punishment to the defendants for such conduct, if so, and a proper -warning to others.’ ” “ ‘The Court instructs the Jury that "the term “malice” as used in the instructions, does not necessarily mean actual ill will or spite, but means merely intentional doing of a wrongful act without just cause or excuse.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wehrman v. Liberty Petroleum Company