Gladding Chevrolet, Inc. v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
10 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Brewer v. Mele (1972), Palmer Ford, Inc. v. Wood (1984)
10 district · 25 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 Stewart v. Sonneborn · Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Barrack · Kennedy v. Crouch · Banks v. Montgomery Ward & Co. · Nance v. Gall
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . a reasonable ground of suspicion supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves tc warrant a cautious man in believing that the accused is guilty . . . mere belief, however sincere, is not sufficient. There must be such grounds of belief founded upon actual knowledge of facts as would influence the mind of a reasonable person.” 10”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““To prevail in a suit for malicious prosecution the plaintiff must show: (1) that the criminal proceeding instituted or abetted by the defendant has terminated in his favor, apart from whether any inference as to probable cause for the proceeding arises from the termination; (2) a want of probable cause for the proceeding which may, or may not, be inferred from the termination of the proceeding, depending upon the manner of the termination; (3) malice, which is a primary purpose for the institution of the proceeding, other than that of bringing an offender to justice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the facts relied on to constitute probable cause, or the inferences to be drawn therefrom are clear and undisputed, the question is one of law for the court; but if the evidence or inferences to be drawn therefrom are disputed, it becomes a mixed question of law and fact.” 14”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.