Brown v. Sears Roebuck & Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that false statements made by a civilian defendant did not vitiate probable cause because “probable cause existed for plaintiffs arrest without any reference to the alleged statements”
• granting summary judgment for defendant where he provided information to police and signed complaint but where no evidence exists that the police officer’s determination to arrest plaintiff rested on defendant’s statements
• providing information and signing a criminal complaint are insufficient to support a claim
• \[A] defendant may be said to have initiated a criminal proceeding by providing false evidence to the police\ which they later relied on in making an arrest.
• “[I]t is true that a defendant may be said to have initiated a criminal proceeding by providing false evidence to the police or withholding evidence that might affect the determination by the police to make an arrest ....”
• “[I]t is true 7 that a defendant may be said to have initiated a criminal proceeding by providing false evidence 8 to the police or withholding evidence that might affect the determination by the police to make 9 an arrest . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

30 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Wilhelmina Models, Inc. v. Fleisher
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2005-06-23· cited 258×
• Theodore Rothstein v. Mark Carriere, and Multi-Media Distributing Co. Inc., Leisure Time Entertainment, Inc., and Leisure Time Products, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2004-06-24· cited 195×
• Stampf v. Long Island Railroad
  Second Circuit· 2014-07-30· cited 133×
• Lupski v. County of Nassau
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2006-09-26· cited 49×
• Cardoza v. City of New York
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2016-04-12· cited 26×
• Brown v. Nassau County
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2003-06-09· cited 19×
• Robles v. City of New York
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2013-03-20· cited 17×
• Baker v. City of New York
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2007-10-30· cited 16×
• Moorhouse v. Standard
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2014-11-06· cited 16×
• Slatkin v. Lancer Litho Packaging Corp.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2006-10-12· cited 15×
• Roe v. Domestic & Foreign Missionary Socy. of the Prot. Episcopal Church
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2021-10-06· cited 14×
• Mahoney v. State of New York
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2017-02-23· cited 12×
• Khan v. Reade
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2004-05-11· cited 12×
• Oszustowicz v. Admiral Insurance Brokerage Corp.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2008-03-04· cited 12×
• Lawson v. New York Billiards Corp.
  E.D. New York· 2004-08-10· cited 7×
• Weiss v. Hotung
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2006-02-03· cited 4×
• Buller v. Giorno
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2008-12-02· cited 2×
• LoFaso v. City of New York
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2009-10-06· cited 2×
• Patrick v. United Parcel Service, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2016-07-07· cited 1×
• San George v. Eden Central School System
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2004-04-30· cited 1×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Murphy v. American Home Products Corp.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-03-29· cited 1,284×
• Broughton v. State
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-07-10· cited 1,141×
• Ryan v. New York Telephone Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-06-14· cited 1,052×
• Howell v. New York Post Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1993-04-05· cited 788×
• Martin v. City of Cohoes
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-06-11· cited 637×
• People v. Jennings
  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-12-18· cited 603×
• Colon v. City of New York
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-10-25· cited 465×
• Present v. Avon Products, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1999-03-30· cited 294×
• Schanbarger v. Kellogg
  Supreme Court· 1975-11-03· cited 286×
• Smith-Hunter v. Harvey
  New York Court of Appeals· 2000-07-06· cited 179×
• Parkin v. Cornell University, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1991-11-26· cited 88×
• Gisondi v. Town of Harrison
  New York Court of Appeals· 1988-07-12· cited 86×
• Du Chateau v. Metro-North Commuter Railroad
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1999-03-18· cited 67×
• Ramos v. City of New York
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2001-08-16· cited 54×
• DeFilippo v. County of Nassau
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1992-05-04· cited 52×
• Seltzer v. Bayer
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2000-05-30· cited 34×
• Viza v. Town of Greece
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1983-05-25· cited 31×
• Grant v. Barnes & Noble, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2001-06-21· cited 9×
• Grieco v. Nassau County Police Department
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1999-11-08· cited 5×
• Plataniotis v. TWE-Advance/ Newhouse Partnership
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2000-03-09· cited 5×