Monroe v. Sigler’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Kelly v. Serna (1996), Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Blackford (1994)
6 federal appellate · 36 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 31 Ga. App. 764 - Darnell v. Shirley · Day Realty Associates, Inc. v. McMillan · 157 Ga. App. 420 - Usher v. Johnson · 175 Ga. App. 542 - Fisher v. Kentucky Fried Chicken · Ayala v. Sherrer
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Having heard all the evidence that the [State] had to present, the trial court was called upon the examine the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a conviction. In denying the motion, the court found the evidence sufficient to authorize a jury to determine guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. That quantum of evidence is substantially greater than mere probable cause. Such being the case, does the trial court's denial of a motion for a directed verdict of acquittal constitute a binding determination of the existence of probable cause? We answer in the affirmative. . . . When the trial judge, having heard all of the [S]tate's evidence, considers a motion on behalf of an accused (the accused being present and given an opportunity to be heard in support of the motion); and when the trial judge rules that the evidence is sufficient as a matter of law to support a conviction (that is, is sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find each and every element of the guilt of the accused beyond a reasonable doubt), we can see no reason why such a holding unreversed and in the absence of fraud or corruption should not suffice as to the existence of probable cause. [Cits.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he existence of probable cause has been established, during the trial of the criminal case, in such manner as to preclude [appellant's] action for malicious prosecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“at the time of the prosecution, ... [defendants] could have had no reasonable grounds for believing [Kelly] to be guilty of the charge brought.”
2 later decisions 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.