Huffstutler v. Edge’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2009
8 federal appellate · 10 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 Parisian Co. v. Williams · McMullen v. Daniel · Molton Realty Co. v. Murchison · Sinclair Refining Co. v. Robertson · Brackin v. Reynolds
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When there is a conflict in the evidence as to material facts relevant to that issue [probable cause], a finding of the facts on that basis is one of fact not of law. But the legal effect of such finding on the issue of probable cause is one of law for the court and not one of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Malice in this sort of action implies the intentional doing of a wrongful act to the injury of another.”
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.