Brinsfield v. Howeth’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 7 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 1984 · most notably Pecue v. . West (1922), McGhee v. Draper (1977)
13 federal appellate · 7 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 Fresh v. Cutter · Avirett v. State · Coffin v. Brown · Gambrill v. Schooley · Bradley v. Cramer
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All words spoken falsely and maliciously touching the character or reputation for chastity of any woman, whether single or married, and tending to the injury thereof shall be deemed slander, and shall be treated as such in the several courts of law in this State.”
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.