Gregory v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1970
5 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 Gendron v. St. Pierre · Mueller v. Radebaugh · Johnson v. St. Louis Dispatch Co.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true, as defendant contends, that it is the duty of every one to assist in the detection of crime, and to that end he should communicate to the proper officer what he knows regarding the commission of a crime. (Mueller v. Radebaugh, 79 Kan. 306 , 99 Pac. 612 .) Statements in themselves slanderous are protected as privileged if made in good faith in prosecuting an inquiry into a suspected crime.” (p. 195, 196.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Faber v. Byrle““One who makes a false charge of larceny or other crime of that grade against another cannot escape responsibility by the mere statement of the grounds of his opinion. An untrue imputation of crime not privileged is actionable, and one who makes it should be sure that his charge is based upon reliable information and upon sufficient facts.” (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aku v. Lewis
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.