Goldsborough v. Orem & Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Aids Counseling And Testing Centers v. Group W Television, Incorporated (1990), Julian v. Kansas City Star Co. (1908)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 20 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 Avirett v. State · Negley v. Farrow · Lewis v. Daily News Co. · Haines v. Campbell · Caruth v. Richeson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the words spoken, or written though plain in themselves apply equally well to more persons than one, evidence may be given both of the cause and occasion of the publication, and of all the surrounding circumstances affecting the relation between the parties. The plaintiff may call at the trial his friends, or those acquainted with the circumstances, to state that on reading the libel they at once concluded it was aimed at the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“construed in the sense in which hearers or readers of common and reasonable understanding would ascribe to [it].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.