Flake v. Flake’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1988
10 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 Ashton v. Grucker · Bienvenu v. Her Husband · 16 La. Ann. 94 - Homes v. Carrier
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The utterances of a wife to a confidential friend while seeking sympathy and advice and when smarting under what she reasonably considered to be wrongs received at the hands of her husband * * * will not be held to be ‘public defamation.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wigzell v. Wigzell
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.