Hampton v. . Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The justification does not consist merely in the facts that the defendant heard the words and gave up his author, for that gives him no right to repeat them, if false, especially if he knew them to be false, and with intent to cause the *Page 134 (183) guilt of the plaintiff to be believed. Such conduct makes him the indorser of the slander,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. . White