Jerald v. Houston’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1982
8 federal appellate · 12 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 Coleman v. MacLennan · Stevens v. Snow · Schomberg v. Walker · Guisti v. Galveston Tribune · Tonini v. Cevasco
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not the understanding of one or several readers which determines whether an article is libelous per se. The question is whether the words on their face, without explanation or extrinsic proof, would necessarily, or as a natural or immediate consequence, cause injury * * * and the question is one of law for the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Rule followed that a cause of action for libel may be stated although the alleged libelous article did not charge the aggrieved party with the commission of a crime defined by statute.” (Syl. ¶ 2.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sheridan v. Davies
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.