Hilfirty v. Shipman’s Empirical Analysis
91 F.3d 573 · 1996
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Gallo v. City of Philadelphia (1998), Merkle v. Upper Dublin School District (2000)
22 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Griffin v. United States · Town of Newton v. Rumery · Rose 88-1634 v. Bartle a Reed W 88-1646
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to state a prima facie case for a section 1983 claim of malicious prosecution, the plaintiff must establish the elements of the common law tort as it has developed over time.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Torres v. McLaughlin · Uboh v. Reno“(a) a discharge by a magistrate at a preliminary hearing; or (b) the refusal of a grand jury to indict; or (c) the formal abandonment of the proceedings by the public prosecutor; or (d) the quashing of an indictment or information; or (e) an acquittal; or (f) a final order in favor of the accused by a trial or appellate court.”
2 later decisions 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.