51 Md. App. 93 - Davis v. Muse’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2006
16 district · 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 James v. Prince George's County · White v. Towers · Brewer v. Mele · Prince George's County v. Blumberg · Bradshaw v. Prince George's County
Most-quoted passages
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“[W]e deem it entirely predictable that the Court would not permit the mere inference of malice to be applied to a police officer on the basis of absence of probable cause.... In this respect, we note that the lower court in this case included the following in its instruction on malicious prosecution: “The word ‘maliciously’ as used in these instructions means the intentional doing of a wrongful act to the injury of the plaintiff, the act having been done with an evil or unlawful motive or purpose. “To prove malice there must be an affirmative showing of ill will, improper motivation or evil purpose.” We consider that instruction entirely appropriate.”
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.