Frye v. O'NEILL

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that liability for malicious prosecution “is not confined to situation where the defendant signed a complaint against the plaintiff. Rather, liability extends to all persons who played a significant role in causing the prosecution.”
• suggesting in dicta that probable cause at the time of arrest is the pertinent time for purposes of the tort
• “Liability for malicious criminal prosecution is not confined to situations where the defendant signed a complaint against the plaintiff.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).