Brown v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 1442 · 1984
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Rose 88-1634 v. Bartle a Reed W 88-1646 (1989), Cameron v. Fogarty (1986)
37 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Allen v. McCurry · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Johnson v. United States · Gerstein v. Pugh
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile the common law rule was clear that an outstanding conviction barred an action for malicious prosecution respecting the same charge ... it appears considerably less plain that such a conviction had the same effect on an action for false arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[at] common law, a civil damage suit for abuse of process is not necessarily barred merely because the criminal (or other) proceeding involving the allegedly abused process has not terminated favorably to the damage suit plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Brown's complaint does not allege, and nothing in the record suggests, that Brown is in any way likely, or more likely than any other Mississippian to be again subjected to arrest or charging by any Mississippi constable.”
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.