Ruff v. Eckerds Drugs, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven (1991), Janetka v. Dabe (1989)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 11 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 Parrott v. Plowden Motor Co. · Prosser v. Parsons · State v. Hill · Margolis v. Telech · Elletson v. Dixie Home Stores
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n action for malicious prosecution should not be available, where, as here, both charges arise out of the same set of circumstances.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the institution or continuation of original judicial proceedings, either civil or criminal, (2) by, or at the instance of, the defendant, (3) termination of such proceeding in plaintiffs favor, (4) malice in instituting such proceedings, (5) want of probable cause, and (6) resulting injury or damage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“By probable cause is meant the extent of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief in a reasonable mind acting on the facts within the knowledge of the prosecution that the person charged was guilty of a crime for which he has been charged, and only those facts and circumstances which were or should have been known to the prosecutor at the time he instituted the prosecution should be considered.”
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.