Sharpe v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 1963 · most notably Stubbs v. Mulholland (1902), Carp v. Queen Insurance (1907)
44 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 Sharpe v. Johnston · Vansickle v. Brown · Brant v. Higgins · Casperson v. Sproule · State v. Railey
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 47 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.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When an indictment has been found by the grand jury or the defendant has been committed by the examining magistrate, this prima-facie evidence of probable cause may be rebutted or overthrown by evidence showing that such indictment, or commitment, was obtained by false or fraudulent testimony, or other improper means, or by evidence showing that the prosecutor, notwithstanding the action of the grand jury, or the committing magistrate, did not himself believe the defendant to be guilty.”
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.