Finley v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1976 · most notably Cook v. Globe Printing Co. (1910), Minter v. Bradstreet Co. (1903)
6 federal appellate · 34 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 Byam v. . Collins · Klinck v. . Colby · Henry v. Moberly · Marks v. Baker · Stewart v. Hall
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is that a communication made in good faith, upon any subject-matter in which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, public or private, either legal, moral, or social, if made to a person having a corresponding interest, or duty, is privileged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peak v. Taubman
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.