1 E.H. Smith 59 - Holmes v. . Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 1969 · most notably Goldwater v. Ginzburg (1969), 123 F. Supp. 36 - Reynolds v. Pegler (1954)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 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 Hatfield v. . Lasher · Taylor v. . Church
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The plaintiff was, therefore, entitled to recover damages for this misstatement. * * * “ Whether the information was actually true, it [The Times] could not know at the time, and so far as its motive was concerned, and whether or not it was actuated by actual malice in making the charge of drunkenness, the actual fact subsequently proved of the truth of the chargA'of extortion could have no retroactive influence in determining the quo animo of the publication.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The publication of a libel is the wrongful act presumably injurious to those persons to whom it relates, and in the •absence of legal excuse, gives a right of recovery irrespective of the intent of the defendant who published it, and this although he had reason to believe the statement to be true, and was actuated by an honest or even commendable motive in making the publication.””
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.