Crane v. . Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 1965 · most notably Corrigan v. . Bobbs-Merrill Co. (1920), Weinberger v. Board of Public Instruction (1927)
2 district · 40 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCrane v. Bennett
Relationships
Relies on Roberson v. . Rochester Folding Box Co. · Holmes v. . Jones · Colonial City Traction Co. v. Kingston City Railroad · Bergmann v. . Jones · King v. Root
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The general rule is that in an action for libel, proof by the plaintiff tending to establish the falsity of the alleged libelous publication is evidence of malice, and if such evidence is introduced a question for the jury is presented whether the malice is of such a character as to call for punitive damages.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hume v. Kusche
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.