Express Pub. Co. v. Orsborn’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1957
6 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 15 Tex. Civ. App. 574 - Houston Printing Co. v. Moulden · 27 Tex. Civ. App. 546 - Boone v. Herald News 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not necessary, to make the article published libelous, that plaintiff should have been named, if he was pointed out by circumstances. * * * It is only necessary that the words refer to some person ascertainable from the words used.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapa v. Abernethy““It was not necessary that all the world should understand who the person defamed was. It is sufficient if those who know the plaintiff can discern that she was the person meant. Newell on Slander and Libel, p. 767.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapa v. Abernethy
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.