Chatman v. Pizitz, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2009
6 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Ray v. Montgomery · 37 Ala. App. 96 - Holloway v. State · Key v. Dozier · Hanson v. Couch
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[W]here defendant's proof of compromise is unchallenged by plaintiff, notwithstanding plaintiff's proof of dismissal of the criminal charge, defendant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. To paraphrase the Restatement: A malicious prosecution plaintiff, having bought his peace, may not thereafter assert that the criminal proceedings were terminated in his favor."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘probable cause’ as the term is employed in actions for malicious prosecution is such a state of facts in the mind of the prosecutor as would lead a man of ordinary caution and prudence to believe or entertain an honest and strong suspicion that the person arrested is guilty."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. Harris“"[W]here the parties join issue by way of pleadings and proof with respect to the defense of compromise, that issue is to be resolved by the jury like any other triable issue of fact."”
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.