Calkins v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Briscoe v. W (1983), Yaselli v. Goff (1926)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he claims of the individual must yield to the dictates of public policy, which requires that the paths which lead to the ascertainment of truth should be left as free and unobstructed as possible.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“' “The rule is, that if what is said or written be pertinent and material to the cause or subject matter of inquiry, the speaker or writer is not liable to an action, however much he may be actuated by hatred or ill-will.” '”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schultz v. Strauss
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.