Sims v. Jay’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1952
14 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 Wheeler v. Nesbitt · Brown v. Selfridge · Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Co. v. Henby · Davis v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. · El Reno Gas & Electric Co. v. Spurgeon
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is for the best interest of society that those who offend against the laws shall be promptly punished, and that any citizen, who has good reason to believe that the law has been violated, shall have the right to cause the arrest of the offender. Por the purpose of protecting- him in so doing, it is the established rule that if he have reasonable grounds for his belief, and acts thereon in good faith in causing- the arrest, he shall not he subjected to damages merely because the accused is not convicted. This rule 'is founded upon the grounds of public policy, in order to encourage the exposure of crime. It would indeed be a harsh rule, and one calculated to discourage entirely the making- of complaints by private individuals in criminal cases, to hold that one who has acted upon the advice of a reputable disinterested, practicing attorney, given upon a full and fair statement of all the material facts which he knew, or which he had reasonable grounds to believe existed at the time, should be civilly liable in damages if the prosecution should fail.””
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.