Brooks v. . Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1955
3 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The case then, as we infer, was intended to present this question: In an action for malicious prosecution is it sufficient for the plaintiff to show that the defendant in instituting the prosecution was influenced by general malice, or must he show that the plaintiff had particular malice against him? His Honor thought the plaintiff must show particular malice on the part of the defendant towards him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Savage v. Davis.“When there is a total want of probable cause the jury will infer malice almost of necessity, as a prosecution wholly groundless cannot be accounted for in any other way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“General malice is wickedness, a disposition (799) to do wrong, a black and diabolical heart, regardless of social duty and fatally bent on mischief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Long
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.