Manuel v. Deshotels’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Loew's, Incorporated v. Don George, Inc. (1959), Howard v. Coyle (1927)
4 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 Lescale v. Joseph Schwartz Co. · Wolf v. Royal Ins. · Sabine Tram Co. v. Jurgens
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plaintiff's cause of action will not accrue unless and until it be established on the trial of the suit wherein the pleading containing the defamatory language is filed that said averments are false, and that defendants knew them to be false, or had not just and probable cause to believe them to be true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The contention of the appellees is that when a suit for damages for libel is based upon allegations contained in another suit, the second suit must await the termination of the action wherein the defamatory averments are made. We think this is correct."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giordano v. Tullier
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.