Cowan v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2021
2 federal appellate · 14 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · In re Disbarment of McManus · State v. Clark · Hulsey v. Sargent · Newberry v. Allied Stores, Inc.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“require[s] Plaintiff only to prove that she suffered actual injury to her reputation as one of the elements of the cause of action,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“negligently published the communication, and that, the communication proximately caused actual injury to plaintiff's reputation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“well-established New Mexico law that jury instructions are to be considered as a whole”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Durden
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.