Vansickle v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 1958 · most notably Scovill v. Glasner (1883), Carp v. Queen Insurance (1907)
33 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 Barron v. Mason · Sharpe v. Johnston · Snow v. Paine · Spengler v. Davy · Hill v. Palm
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In our opinion, that reasonable and probable cause which will relieve a prosecutor from liability is a belief by him in the guilt of the accused, based upon circumstances sufficiently strong to induce such belief in the mind of a reasonable and cautious man.””
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.