James v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Carwile v. Richmond Newspapers, Inc. (1954), Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. O'NEAL (1982)
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Burt v. Advertiser Newspaper Co. · P. Lorillard Co. v. Clay · Norfolk & Western R. v. Ampey · Penick v. Ratcliffe · Williams Printing Co. v. Saunders
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessary that the published report be verbatim, but it must be substantially correct. * * * “ * * *, but every principle of’ public policy and good faith requires that these publications be srtbstantially correct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.