Davis v. Teague’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1982
7 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 Missouri Pac Co v. Ault · Gussie Fox v. Dallas Hotel Co. · The Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company v. Philip Quigley · Pennsylvania Co. v. Weddle · American Express Co. v. Patterson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . Facts that would create in the mind of a reasonably prudent man a belief in plaintiff’s guilt would constitute a defense against the charge of malicious prosecution . . ””
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.