Guide Publishing Co. v. Futrell’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2015
13 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 Federal Land Bank v. Birchfield · W. T. Grant Co. v. Owens · Chalkley v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · James v. Powell · Weatherford v. Birchett
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action for insulting words ... is treated precisely as an action for slander or libel, for words actionable per se, with one exception, namely, no publication is necessary. The trial of an action for insulting words is completely assimilated to the common law action for libel or slander, and from the standpoint of Virginia law, it is an action for libel or slander.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“insults and tend to violence and breach of the peace.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“their usual construction and common acceptance”
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.