Wofford v. Meeks’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Layne v. Tribune Co. (1933), New York Times Company v. Sullivan (1962)
1 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Gaither v. Advertiser Co. · Hardy v. Williamson · Iron Age Publishing Co. v. Crudup · Henderson v. Hale · Ivey v. Pioneer Savings & Loan 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Generally, any false and malicious publication, when' expressed in printing or writing or by signs or pictures, is a libel, which charges an offense punishable by indictment, or which tends to. bring an individual into public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, or charges an act odious and disgraceful in society. This general definition may be said to include whatever tends to injure the character of an individual or blacken his reputation, or imputes fraud, dishonesty, or other moral turpitude or reflects shame or tends to put him without the pale of social intercourse.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`When words from their general import appear to have been spoken with a view to defame a party, the court ought not to be industrious in putting a construction upon them different from what they bear in the common acceptation and meaning of them.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.