Hawley v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2006
19 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 Boyd v. United States · Counselman v. Hitchcock · Lees v. United States · Emery's case · People Ex Rel. Lewisohn v. . O'Brien
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute is directed against false statements relative to facts. It is not intended to prevent criticism of candidates for office nor to prevent deductions and arguments from their official conduct unfavorable to them. It does not reach criticism which is merely unfair or unjust. It does reach false statements of specific facts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The statute does not intend to punish one with the loss of an office to which he is elected because of statements circulated by his friends in which he does not participate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Derus v. Higgins
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.