Broughton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
150 federal appellate · 11 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 813 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Weyant v. Okst (1996), Singer v. Fulton County Sheriff (1995)
150 federal appellate · 11 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 813 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant intended to confine [the plaintiff], (2) the plaintiff was conscious of the confinement, (3) the plaintiff did not consent to the confinement and (4) the confinement was not otherwise privileged.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“applies only in causes of action for malicious prosecution and is totally misplaced when applied in false [arrest] actions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[j]ustification may be established by showing that the arrest was based on probable cause”
2 later decisions 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.