Irwin v. SWO Acquisition Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2016
7 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 Walker v. Schaeffer · Middlebrook v. Imler, Tenny & Kugler, M.D.'s, Inc. · Oxley v. City of Tulsa Ex Rel. Tulsa Airport Authority · Lee v. Knight · Lewis v. Crystal Gas Company
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]alse arrest is the unlawful restraint of an individual against his will.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... This case does not present the kind of situation contemplated by Rule 410: the use of a nolo contendere plea against the pleader in a subsequent civil or criminal action in which he is the defendant.... Accordingly, use of the no-contest plea for estoppel purposes is not "against the defendant" within the meaning of Fed.R.Evid. 410. The use would be more accurately characterized as "for" the benefit of the "new" civil defendants, the police officers. . . . We decline to interpret the rule so as to allow the former defendants to use the plea offensively, in order to obtain damages, after having admitted facts which would indicate no civil liability on the part of the arresting police.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Plaintiff, in an action for false arrest has the burden of proving lack of probable cause for bringing a criminal action against him and is required to prove lack of probable cause. (Citations omitted.)”
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.