Cooley v. Galyon’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008 · most notably Briscoe v. W (1983), Briscoe v. Lahue (1981)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Applying these principles to this case, the question is not whether the words spoken by the defendant were false and malicious, but were they spoken in a judicial proceeding, and were they relevant and pertinent to the subject of inquiry in that proceeding, or responsive to questions propounded to the defendant by -counsel while being examined therein as a witness ¶ If they were, they are absolutely privileged, and the plaintiff’s action must fail.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dyer v. Dyer
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.