Webster v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2004
5 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 Hamilton v. Smith
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well-established rule of law that the advice and concurrence of a public prosecutor is not a good defense to an action for ihalicious prosecution unless it appears that the defendant fully and fairly disclosed to such officer everything within defendant's knowledge which would tend to cause or to exclude belief in plaintiff's guilt; and whether the defendant did make a full and fair disclosure to the district attorney was a matter for the jury to determine, and not for the trial court or this Court."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Govaski v. Downey
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.