Brown v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 29 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Whelan v. Abell (1992), Paul v. Howard University (2000)
6 federal appellate · 29 district · 8 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 18 Cal. 2d 146 - Jaffe v. Stone · 25 Cal. 3d 747 - Lackner v. LaCroix · Waldon v. Covington · 80 Cal. App. 3d 823 - Minasian v. Sapse · Asia Investment Co. v. Borowski
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o favorable termination is found where the earlier action is dismissed on the ground of the statute of limitations or laches because these dispositions do not reflect on the merits of the underlying claim. By contrast, dismissal for failure to prosecute has been held to be a favorable termination where the facts of the case indicate that such a disposition reflects on the innocence of the defendant in the underlying suit.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is apparent “favorable” termination does not occur merely because a party ... has prevailed in an underlying action. While the fact he has prevailed is an ingredient of a favorable termination, such termination must further reflect on his innocence of the alleged wrongful conduct. If the termination does not relate to the merits — reflecting on neither innocence of nor responsibility for the alleged misconduct — the termination is not favorable in the sense it would support a subsequent action for malicious prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the underlying suit terminated in the plaintiff's favor; (2) malice on the part of the defendant; [and] (3) lack of probable cause for the underlying suit[.]”
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.