Belflower v. Blackshere’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2014
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 De Bouchel v. Koss Const. Co. · Hackler v. Miller · Knickerbocker Steamboat Co. v. Cusack · Davis v. Johnson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily an action for malicious prosecution accrues at, and limitations run from, the time of termination of the proceedings. An action for false imprisonment accrues at, and the statute of limitations runs from, the termination of the imprisonment. 54 C.J.S. Limitations of Actions § 175, p. 144.”
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.