McLeod v. McLeod’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Union Indemnity Co. v. Webster (1928), Gulsby v. Louisville & Nashville R. R. (1910)
26 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 Ewing v. Sanford · Halso v. Seawright · Motes v. Bates
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not to be inferred from what we have said that the act of abandoning a prosecution is not evidence to be weighed by the jury. That, and all other circumstances, should be considered in determining whether, at the institution of the prosecution, there was probable cause for believing the accused guilty of the offense charged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fowlkes v. Lewis““The question in such cases is not whether the accused was in fact guilty, but whether the prosecutor, acting in good faith, and on the reasonable appearance of things, entertained the reasonable belief of his guilt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Torian v. Ashford
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.