Schippel v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Nelson v. Miller (1980), Smith v. Printup (1993)
1 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Freese v. Tripp · Dennis v. . Ryan · Maxwell v. Kennedy · Burhans v. Sanford & Brown · Hays v. Blizzard
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a good defense to an action for malicious prosecution, that the •defendant, before commencing the alleged malicious prosecution, it being a criminal prosecution, presented the matter to the county attorney, fairly stating to him all the facts, and then in good faith followed the advice of the county attorney.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.