Strong v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 687 So. 2d 1205 - Wilbourn v. Stennett, Wilkinson & Ward (1996), 612 So. 2d 1092 - C & C TRUCKING CO. v. Smith (1992)
34 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 Harvill v. TABOR · State Life Ins. Co. of Ind. v. Hardy · 500 So. 2d 439 - Royal Oil Co., Inc. v. Wells · 568 So. 2d 1182 - Benjamin v. Hooper Electronic Supply Co. · 555 So. 2d 725 - Parker v. Game and Fish Com'n
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probable cause requires the concurrence of (1) a subjective elementan honest belief in the guilt of the person accused, and (2) an objective elementreasonable grounds for such beliefs.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“refers to the defendant's objective, not his attitude.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the institution or continuation of original judicial proceedings, either criminal or civil (2) by, or at the insistence of the defendants; (3) the termination of such proceeding in plaintiff's favor; (4) malice in instituting the proceeding; (5) want of probable cause for the proceedings; and (6) the suffering of damages as a result of the action or prosecution complained of.”
5 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.