Brinkley v. Fishbein’s Empirical Analysis
110 F.2d 62 · 1940
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1974
1 district · 4 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 Nunn v. Webster · Express Pub. Co. v. Keeran · Morin v. Houston Press 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The publication of the following matters by any newspaper or periodical ■shall be deemed privileged and shall not be made the basis of any action for libel. ****** “2. A fair, true and impartial account of all executive and legislative proceedings, including all reports of and proceedings in or before legislative committees and before each and all such committees heretofore appointed by the Legislature or either branch of the Legislature or hereafter to be appointed by such bodies or either of them and of any debate or'statement in or before the Legislature or either branch thereof or any of its committees, and including also all reports of and proceedings in or before the managing boards of educational and eleemosynary, institutions supported from the public revenue, of city councils or other governing .bodies .of cities ,or towns,, of -the commissioners’ court of any county, and of the board of tru'stees of the public schools of any . district, city or county, and of any-debate or statement'in or before any such body. “3. A fair, true and impartial account of the proceedings of public meetings, dealing with public purposes, including a fair, true and impartial account of statements and discussion in such meetings, and of other matters of public concern, transpiring and uttered at such public meetings. “4. A reasonable and fair comment or criticism of the official acts of public officials and'of other matters of public concern published for general information.””
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.