369 So. 2d 1221 - Wilson v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
January 1998
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dickerson v. Schwabacher · Clikos v. Long · Turner v. J. Blach & Sons, Inc. · Tarver v. Household Finance Corporation
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`[T]he institution or continuation of original judicial proceedings, either civil or criminal; (2) by, or at the instance of, *Page 706 the defendant; (3) the termination of such proceedings in plaintiff's favor; (4) malice in instituting the proceedings; (5) want of probable cause for the proceeding; and (6) the suffering of injury or damage as a result of the action or prosecution complained of' Turner v. J. Blach Sons , 242 Ala. 127 , 129 , 5 So.2d 93 , 94 (1941)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The chief distinction between abuse of process and malicious prosecution is that the former rests upon the improper use of a regularly issued process, whereas the latter has to do with the wrong in the issuance of the process or in causing the process to be issued.”
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.