Thrift v. Hubbard’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Segal v. Emmes Capital, L.L.C. (2004), San Antonio Credit Union v. O'CONNOR (2003)
1 district · 21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 288th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Cain v. Bain · Pool v. Ford Motor Co. · Beck v. United States · Garrett v. United States · Stafford v. Stafford
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he probable cause inquiry focuses only on the actions of the complainant, based upon his perspective of the facts at the time the report was made , and not on the subsequent actions of third-parties or information discovered after the fact”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the defendant lacked probable cause to instigate the prosecution”
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.